Browse 2098 quotes about Humanism.
“To live for god is okay, to live for knowledge is good, to live for people is the greatest.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 79
When we end up together,
That's not an end, but the beginning.
It's division that ends all journey,
End division, ‘n life will have true beginning.
Century after century went on with division,
Yet unity is forever, division is nonexistence.
To breathe, eat, mate and sleep, ain't existence,
To help, heal, lift and light, that's existence.
We've got intellect, we've got sentiment,
All are useless if they don't help erase division.
Human is another name for undivision,
Not another synonym for discrimination.
To have 'n to hold, mustn't be a vow between just two.
Make it one among all, and soon unity will be true.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Belief sustains a person, but behavior sustains a society.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“In his case, the decisive factor was the study of Ancient Greek, made possible when in 1397 Salutati invited the preeminent Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysolaras to reside in Florence and give classes in a language that had been almost completely forgotten. "At the coming of Chrysoloras," Bruni later recalled, "I was made to halt in my choice of lives, seeing that I held it wrong to desert law, and yet I reckoned it a crime to omit so great an occasion of learning the Greek literature." The lure proved irresistible: "Conquered at last by these reasonings, I delivered myself over to Chrysolaras with such passion that what I had received from him by day in hours of waking, occupied my mind at night in hours of sleep.”
Source: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“Killing a tyrant only postpones tyranny. Focus on building a humane society, so that none of the kids ever winds up a tyrant.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“I am a human first, scientist second, and poet last.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“To bigots and divisionists their culture is the world. To me the world is my culture.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Be The Love Commandment (A Sonnet)
Instead of worrying about a fictitious judgment day,
Make your actual today a real nonjudgment day.
Instead of hoping for a fictitious heaven after death,
Make this world that you have an abode without hate.
Plenty of heart force we have wasted on fiction,
Plenty of attention we have placed on insecurity.
Now it's time to redirect our time and priorities,
It is time to be the valiant vanguards of reality.
I ain’t talkin’ about being chained to the reality,
Nor about keeping things the way they are for so long.
All I'm asking is, we pay attention to the now and here,
Instead of obsessing over tales from days long gone.
So, stand up to the tyrants as apocalypse incarnate.
Reach out to the needy as a living love commandment.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“What’s It All About (The Sonnet)
What is this world all about!
What is this society all about!
What is this life all about!
What is our existence all about!
What are the roads all about!
What are the skyscrapers all about!
What are the bridges all about!
What are our feet all about!
What is science all about!
What is faith all about!
What is technology all about!
What is politics all about!
'Tis all about people and their welfare.
All notions to the contrary cause only despair.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“True Naskareans of earth are them alone who ain't no Naskarean but plain human.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Is it possible to be a person of integrity while maintaining a radical bifurcation between one's outer and inner lives? And if that inner life should value, above all, rationality, free inquiry, and the right of us all to flourish to our fullest, then how can you keep silent as to the conclusions to which your rational free inquiry has brought you? How can you deny for yourself the right to flourish in the company of like-minded people who will not disapprove of you for subjecting your beliefs and actions to the standards of rational accountability? If you believe in the integrity of your conclusions then you must show them to the world, making the case for them not only by the arguments you hash out in the privacy of your own mind but by the life that you publicly lead.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“Do you think science matters more than dogma? Do you think this life is all we're going to get, so we need to make the most of it? Do you find that helping other humans in the here and now gives you well-being? Do you think common sense is more important than rules in ancient texts? Do you trust your experience and knowledge over those who claim a personal connection to their god? Then, whether you recognized it before or not, you're probably a humanist!”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“Humanism is the not so radical idea that you can be good without a god. It's the discovery that you not only don't need outdated texts or god experts to make good choices, but that those are frequently poor resources for decision making. Humanists affirm our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity. We ground that pursuit not in theism or supernatural beliefs, but in the best of modern knowledge determined from trial and error and the scientific process.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“For them (birds), happiness starts with the absence of unhappiness - just as it does for us.”
“Love is the seed, love is the tree, love is the shade.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Scientific studies have shown that beta-male birds are more dependable and attentive to their mates...Perhaps there are lessons for us humans there as well.”
“The day we decide to protect the birds will be the day we decide to protect ourselves.”
“If a tradition endorses hate and mistrust, it’s the tradition that we must reject not people.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“In a society that constantly pushes us to perform, we no longer know how to 'eclipse' ourselves when we feel vulnerable, taking the time we need to re-energize and to gather our strength. When we are bereaved we're told that 'life goes on.' After a heart break, 'there are plenty more fish in the sea,' or after a pet dies, 'well it was only an animal.' Life tries to push us forward, as though we don't have every right to retreat into ourselves and to be sad, mourning the fact that after a bereavement life isn't the same, or that a beloved animal will never come back...In our modern human lives, we are rarely afforded the time necessary to recover from our sadness, to nurse our wounds and to perform the necessary transformation before we re-emerge into the world.”
“The child who stares wide-eyed at his surroundings as he travels with his parents, drinking everything in, is very likely to grow up into a footloose adult. The more he discovers, the more he will want to discover - all those thousand obscure corners of the world, all those far-off places that he could only dream of when he used to gaze at the atlas,...”
“We don't need to build a utopia, but that doesn't mean we have to accept this moronopia as the only world possible.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Peace begins with civilians, not politicians.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Where does peace come from? Peace is born out of air. Where does the air come from? It comes from human lungs.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Submit to love, not to authority.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“In expansion sanctity is science, in expansion science is sanctity.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Vibration and Frequency (The Sonnet)
Surpass the nonsense of vibration,
Surpass the nonsense of frequency.
Come down to the land of mortals,
Embrace the heart's simple beauty.
Science is science, sentiment is sentiment,
In rationalizing sentiment one breeds superstition.
There is no vibration to love and community,
There is no frequency to uplift and unification.
Cleanse your mind of all imitation science,
Just like you ought to do with bigoted holiness.
Trading in one blindness for another is no sanctity,
Replacing one superstition with another is no science.
With the rise of oneness, theories wither and fade away.
But if things are opposite, know that you are going astray.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“I am not a writer, writers have limits, I have none, I only have responsibility, the responsibility to unite the world.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Gone are the days of nationalistic insecurity. Lo the time comes for expansion of humanity.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“High rise buildings and space exploration don't make a lifeform civilized, high rise character and heart exploration do.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“You may have learnt in school that science is all about the evidence. Let me correct that notion. Science is not about the evidence, it is about the humane application of the evidence in the uplift of society.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Sciencelessness and senselessness are all okay, as long as they don't lead to heartlessness.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“There is not much difference between an ideological dingus and septicemic fungus, both cause nothing but death and disease in society.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Your head will rise by reading, but your heart will rise by loving.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“In love everybody is servant, everybody is king.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“When the walls in us turn to dust, even the dust turns gold by our touch.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Remove the rigidity, eighty-six the shrinking, and your heart will turn into a goldmine.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“You may live in your gutter of cultural exclusivity all you want, but don't drag me there. I am a human being. You know what it means? It means I have not one but many cultures - all the cultures. I have not one tongue, but many tongues - all the tongues. I have not one religion, but many religions - all the religions. I have not one country, but many countries - all the countries. I am a human being, my home is planet earth, and all her children my family.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.”
Source: The Caves of Steel
“I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid — and nothing, something — seem greater than anything I have ever read in folk tales.”
Source: The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
“Even the deaf can hear the music of life, yet those with ears hear nothing. Even the blind can see the beauty of heart, yet those with eyes are busy with shopping.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Bullets don't kill bigotry, only education does that.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Let us embrace the benefits of capitalism, let us embrace the morality of socialism, let us embrace the good from each and every ideology without being a mindless slave to any of them.”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“To hate, being an animal is enough, love is a sign of sapience and sanity.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“One Life, One Idea (The Sonnet)
One life, one idea, one duty – love.
One body, one being, one vision – amity.
One heart, one sight, one sentiment – care.
One mind, one kind, one community – humanity.
One pen, one ink, one paper – awareness.
One hive, one height, one light – assimilation.
One kite, one compass, one flight – unity.
One sail, one sea, one ship - self-correction.
One gospel, one goal, one gamble – collectivity.
One cult, one core, one culture – unification.
One church, one mosque, one temple – nonduality.
One road, one reason, one reality – nondifferentiation.
Take the mind beyond the bind to see the world anew.
A world united comes to life when walls turn dust in you.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The world in me is the world in thee.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Togetherness is another name for progress, together forever, either as lovers or ashes.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“I am an addiction most dangerous, keep children away from my works. If you want them to grow up self-centric, make sure they never hear my words.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“No belief is worth losing your humanity over, no intellect is worth losing your kindness over.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Being god-fearing makes you no more divine than animals, true practical divinity is when you serve the helpless as deity.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Neither monasticism nor materialism will do. To move forward we must stand whole and true.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World