Humanism Quote by Jacques Maritain

Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism…

— Karen Armstrong

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves…

— Alan Watts

Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.

— Alija Izetbegovic

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the…

— Stanislav Grof

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

— Zeena Schreck

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

— Aldous Huxley

All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners…

— Frederick Lenz

Environmentalism, apocalyptic environmentalism in particular, has become the dominant religion of supposedly secular people in the West.

— Michael Shellenberger

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man…

— George Carlin