Believe Quote by Corliss Lamont

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

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

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 have been…

— Corliss Lamont

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

— Corliss Lamont

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

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 and immortal…

— 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 activities that…

— Corliss Lamont

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

— Corliss Lamont

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

— Corliss Lamont