It opens the mind toward an understanding of humannature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the veryessence of that much misinterpreted concept, a liberaleducation. It is the foremost approach to humanism,the lore of the...

The world is getting too small for both an Us and a Them. Us and Them have become codependent, intertwined, fixed to one another. We have no separate fates, but are bound together in one....

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There’s just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

People don’t always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don’t advance in life.

You can carry around with you a basket full of magical apples; but when people do not recognize magic, they will ask you to go and pick earthly apples and then they will laugh at...

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

Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen’s “habit of seeing both sides of her own subject – of seeing it indeed in the round”. … Both men and women can be vain about their appearances,...

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

ရာဇဝင္အဆက္ဆက္မွာ လူမ်ိဳးအခ်င္းခ်င္းေပါင္းၿပီး လူမ်ိဳးသစ္ျဖစ္လာတာ၊ လူမ်ိဳးတစ္မ်ိဳးက တစ္မ်ိဳးကို မ်ိဳသြားတာေတြ ရွိသားပဲ။ တ႐ုတ္ေခၚေခၚ၊ အဂၤလိပ္ေခၚေခၚ လူေတြလည္း လူလူခ်င္း ေရာေႏွာသြားတာပဲ၊ အေထြးေတာ့ ဘာမွ ကန္႔ကြက္စရာမရွိပါဘူး၊ ဗမာမွ ယူမယ္ စိတ္မကူးပါဘူး။ တကယ္ေတာ့ ဂ်ာမန္ေကာင္းကင္မွာ ဂ်ဴးလူမ်ိဳးေတြ ျပာက်တဲ့ အေငြ႕နဲ႔ ေမွာင္မည္းသြားတဲ့ အျဖစ္မ်ိဳးသာ ေၾကာက္စရာ ႐ြံ႕စရာပါ။

Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.

Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry into a volcano is the possibility that evil can be defused by talking. The fantasy of justice...

I don’t know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for...

J’ai appris, que la personne que je dois demander le plus pardon est : moi-même. Il faut s’aimer. Il faut se pardonner, chaque jour, chaque fois que vous vous souvenez d’une faiblesse, d’une faille, vous...

There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.

…The existence or non-existence of an undefined ‘god’ are quite pointless.[From ‘Why I am a Secular Humanist’]

The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to...

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or...

The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however...

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made...

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning...

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before...

They haven’t eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.

Everyone doesn’t need to have the same beliefs, we just need to start believing in everyone.

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

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

The reason why the world is a difficult place to live in, is due to the fact that people are not interested in people. Nobody is truly interested in anybody; they are only interested in...

Humanism is the only – I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

Next year, Equality Now will celebrate – if that’s the word – will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear,...

The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when it came to the principle of the French revolution, but Burke did and...

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is...

I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel bastards. And I dislike heroes. You can’t trust the buggers. They always let you down. I don’t believe...