Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say “What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?” If there is such...

When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don’t believe...

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is – a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue....

If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it...

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.

Ein Buch ist ein Spiegel wenn ein Affe hineinsieht so kann kein Apostel heraus gucken.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Of what did Job repent? His wonder was too small.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Hábeis e frios calculadores podem vir demonstrar, ainda e sempre, que o sonho do erasmismo é impossível, e os factos poderão parecer dar-lhes razão; isso nao impede que sejam sempre necessários os seres que indicam...

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone...

There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian...

The beauty in correcting our own mistakes; rather than attempting to correct the mistakes in others, is that working upon our own flaws improves us. But working upon the flaws of others not only leaves...

Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws?

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting...

Don’t care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in nature and, however exceptional, cannot differ in its essence from all...

In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain” Albert Camus

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and...

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

it is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

O que parece haver de desprezo entre homem e homem, de indiferente que permite que se mate gente sem que se sinta que se mata, como entre os assassinos, ou sem que se pense que...

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of...

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power...

My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.

Theistic claims that supernatural agency exists in the universe derive from ancient traditions of belief. The word ‘atheist’ is a theist’s term for a person who does not share such beliefs. Theists think that atheists...

God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far bigger than all of that. We are human. We are destined to grow and learn...

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

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural...

There is no actual need of humans to be a pious like an angel, it’s a big chase to be a human and for me it’s enough to be a human.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

We are taught to believe that the ‘alienation’ that we experience sometimes, when we withdraw from everything or feel alone, is a craving for something sexual, material, or in the physical – and can be...

It is becoming fashionable to scorn the idea of sin in society. The impact of humanistic thinking is to belittle the concept that man is corrupt. Psychologists and psychiatrists would persuade us that people really...