Corliss Lamont

God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem…

— Corliss Lamont

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends…

— Corliss Lamont

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

— Corliss Lamont

The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there…

— Corliss Lamont

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

— Corliss Lamont

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

— Corliss Lamont

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free…

— Corliss Lamont

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

— Corliss Lamont

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

— Corliss Lamont

Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural…

— Corliss Lamont

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

Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted…

— Corliss Lamont

I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they…

— Corliss Lamont

Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe…

— Corliss Lamont

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and…

— Corliss Lamont

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

— Corliss Lamont

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

— Corliss Lamont

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great…

— Corliss Lamont

For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the…

— Corliss Lamont

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

— Corliss Lamont

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must.…

— Corliss Lamont

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

— Corliss Lamont

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not…

— Corliss Lamont

To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all…

— Corliss Lamont