For the freethinking of it all, try to match the following quotes with the famous literary freethinkers and/or atheists and agnostics who they are attributed to.
(Extra kudos for anyone who knows by what two other names George Eliot was known by;having read Adam Beede from cover to cover merits even more than that!)


1. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."

2. "All thinking men are atheists."

3. "The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it."

4. "Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."

5. "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

6. "I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."

7. "The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."

8. "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."

9. "Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

10. "Man is what he believes."

11. "The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in."

a. Virginia Woolf
b. Albert Camus
c. Joyce Carol Oates
d. Jack London
e. Ernest Hemingway
f. George Eliot
g. Arthur Miller
h. Ayn Rand
i. Anton Chekhov
j. James Baldwin
k. A. E. Houseman