In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
UFO mythology is similar to the message of the classical religions where God sends his Angels as emissaries who offer salvation to those who… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and of each… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share
