Humanism Quotes

Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry...

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world's concern ...

Tess's feminine hope - shall we confess it - had been so obstinately recuperative as to revive in he...

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religi...

but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to kee...

...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this...

It was evidently quite obvious to a powerful intellect like his that the one essential condition for...

but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to kee...

The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them...

The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his...

My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the...

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible ...

Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and t...

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you figh...

… my century..is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life be...

Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, a...

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctr...

We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ ar...

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't...

If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately...

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism,...

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since...

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...

jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universa...

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, cons...

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we ...

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

Our sin is our resistance to going along with God's initiative in making suffering reparative. We ar...

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function...

You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophe...

Religion poisons everything

As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the p...

It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and disc...

I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intang...

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman...

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Univ...

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has...

The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and...

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of char...

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on w...

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individ...

Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because “friends react on one another” and through lo...

He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same wor...

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you tha...

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as t...

I decided (after listening to a "talk radio" commentator who abused, vilified, and scorned every nob...

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent...

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability ...

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed...

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the mea...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more ...

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial setting...

All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls un...

Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...

Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two dec...

At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary...

The enemy of humanism is not faith; the enemy of humanism is hate, is fear, is ignorance, is the dar...

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity mea...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have ...

The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme...

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the h...

It opens the mind toward an understanding of humannature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the...

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

We humans who art on EarthHumanity is specialOur kingdom has comeDo what we innately know to be righ...

There are so many works of the mind, so much humanity, that to disburden ourselves of ourselves is a...

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invent...

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

The unification of the planet's history, that humanist dream which God has spitefully allowed to com...

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter...

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to refl...

I want to say a word to the Brahmins: In the name of God, religion, sastras you have duped us. We we...

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a ...

The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is ...

It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antiso...

How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ...

So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into ...

For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,yielding ...