Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and dignity and will emphasize our commitment "to humanity as a whole." The underlying ethical principle "is the need… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the… — 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 man, is that he is condemned to invent what he will be - condemned if he is fearful but blessed if he welcomes the great adventure. We are responsible in the last analysis, not simply for… — 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 Image
