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Humanist Quotes by Corliss Lamont
- 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…
- The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions…
- 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…
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- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. — Irving Babbitt
- I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov
- From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the… — Louis Kronenberger
- The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' — Charles M. Schulz
- I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct. — Sandra Bernhard
- At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At… — Mark Thomas
- Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God… — Rebecca Goldstein
- I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.' — Sarah Jessica Parker
- To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why… — Suzanne Vega
- It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is that they… — Rowan Williams