Corliss Lamont Quotes

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• Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
• The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
• Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own…
• 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…
• For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy…
• 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…
• 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 contribute…
• I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as…
• Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then…
• The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.
• Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
• The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions…
• The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
• I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
• 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 subject to outside…
• Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they…
• Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
• The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
• There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of…
• The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

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