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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 define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all…
• For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the…
• Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and…
• Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other…
• I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they…
• Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe…
• 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…

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