Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“You are the Jehovah of goodness, Allah of brotherhood, Buddha of reasoning and Krishna of love. And that’s more than enough gods,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy 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… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
“WE SHOULD ALL BE HUMANISTS. So I had this conversation with a friend and I am of the view that, we need… — Magnus Nwagu Amudi Copy Share Image
I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress… — Linus Pauling 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… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
“If you could finish even half of what I've written, you'd either hate me enough to kill, or you'd be so massive… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between Homo Sapiens and Human - Homo Sapiens is a meaningless technicality, Human is a lived promise.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Be a human being and you'd automatically be religious, but if you try to be a scripture-worm then you'd be neither religious,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A true businessperson should also be a true humanist who understands that he stands to gain the most in a world that… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Human is a pious promise, not host to parasitic paranoia. Earth is my homerock, sky is my robe - End of tribe… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am too alive to be bound by ideology, I am too human to be bound by border. Too civilized to pledge… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm actually a humanist, believe it or not, and I believe even when people are corrupted, even when they've gone to the… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“My Cosmic Soldiers (The Sonnet) Bloodline is of no consequence, We gotta pass on galvanizing ideas. I may quite easily die without… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error.… — Forrest J. Ackerman Copy Share Image
