Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy. — 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
