The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere,… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range. — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
