Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when…

“It is a profound boredom, profound, the profound heart of existence, the very matter I am made of.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our…

— Anonymous

“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology…

— Judith Butler

“Thus, because Christian morality leaves animals out of account (of this, more later on), they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

— Michael Fox

“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free…

— Jacques Monod

“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science…

— Michael Denton

The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use.

— Eric Pianka

Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions…

— Steven Clark Rockefeller

I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that…

— Ilona Andrews

“If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.”

— Immanuel Kant

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

— Russell E. Train

“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the…

— Julio Cortázar

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Selective literalism' is another attempt in a very long line of techniques designed and intended to shape God into our own image". ~R. Alan…

— R. Alan Woods