Browse 922 quotes about Humanist.
“I'm vast enough to contain the world, asylum pills don't work on pilgrim brains.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Reason is our ark, love is our compass.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Don't Have to Agree, to Love (Sonnet 1347)
You don't have to agree with a person
completely, to love them - accept them.
There are a few, I disagree with plenty,
yet till death, I'll fight for them.
Not all that Rumi wrote apply today,
yet I love Mevlana like my own brother.
Even more of Aquinas are out of date,
yet like a friend I love my Thomas.
Heart doesn't care about consensus of the brain,
Heart only cares for an inexplicable closeness.
Intellect has no bearing over heart's closeness,
Often intellect is a barrier to life's wholeness.
Intellect is boon, but only when it helps wholeness.
Being right is not necessarily the mark of goodness.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“When will I meet my mirror mind,
When will I meet a mirror of kind!”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Look from the gutter, all you see is one culture. Look from the sky, and you'll see a world full of color.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“No Time, No Space (The Sonnet)
There is no time, no space,
There is only love.
There is no intellect, no philosophy,
There is only love.
There is no defeat, no victory,
There is only love.
There is no loss, no gain,
There is only love.
There is no path, no pedestrian,
There is only love.
There is no mission, no means,
There is only love.
All of us are either echoes of love beyond chains,
Or just some traditional trash of glory and gain.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“I am the wind, I just want to flow amongst the people without any barrier. I have no desire to prove the supremacy of facts where there's no need. Some days you may find me in the church taking part in the choir and singing out loud praising my humanitarian predecessor most enthusiastically. Other days, you may find me talking shop with a bunch of atheist scientists. I am in everybody, everybody is in me.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“When breath of one becomes the breath of all,
All atrocious walls will collapse into dust.
When there’s no more ‘my people your people’,
Only then we will be human at last.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Come all ye who have no home, I'll be your home - come all ye who cannot speak, I'll be your voice - come all ye who cannot stand, I'll be your legs - come all ye oppressed, tormented and discriminated - hold my hand and together we'll build the world, the humane way this time.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Truth manifests, when you realize within your heart that you are the truth. There is no ultimate objective truth that the humans as a toddling species in the suburbs of one among billions of galaxies, should be concerned of with its ridiculously limited faculties of comprehension. What matters at the present, is the truth that we radiate in our actions both internally and externally.”
Source: Awakening Diaries: 15 Books Anthology
“we can still disagree, and I can still like love you and see the humanity in you”
“Bring your brain, heart and backbone, but leave everything else at the door, your dictionary, your scripture, your constitution, your philosophy, or do not enter, there'll be no point.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“I decide what I am,
and I decide the parameters of what I am -
for example, I can be a monk and still fall in love,
just like, I can be a muslim poet,
and still consider the koran to be flawed -
I can be a theologian of any faith, and consider
all the scriptures to be a mix of good and bad -
my mind is the measure, not convention;
life is my constitution, not tradition.
This is how I created whatever I've created,
not in defiance of convention, but indifference -
I built my universe, aloof from foolish fractures,
to men of ritual it's a terrible sacrilege.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Love is enlightenment,
Love is the highest reason.
Love is the end of dead walls,
Love is the divine answer.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Be a love-nut, not a faith-freak.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“By race we are all african, by birth we are all feminist, by nature we are all lovers, by suffering we are all poets.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“This protest spoke to me—the humanist principles felt connected to the minimalist essence of long-distance hiking, the desire to transcend the smoke and mirrors of our country’s established society, revealing what remains in all its splendor: the magnificent, resilient human soul.”
Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
“Drunken Humanitarian (Sonnet)
Go, get drunk, my friend!
Get so drunk with a vision unseen,
even monsoon begins to cry!
Get so drunk with an unbent cause,
even bosons bow to thy might!
Get so drunk with incorruptibility,
you emerge a walking Wardencliffe.
Get so drunk with accountability,
no Rorschach can analyze your spirit.
Get so drunk with uncontaminated justice,
every government keeps a file on you!
Get so drunk with untainted love,
conclaves convene to decipher you!
Any ape can find salvation in liquid escape,
takes a human to endure through devastation.
Any rodent of the gutter can drown in alcohol,
it takes a giant to drink the world's poison.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla, my empire - I am the World Viking!”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Human is bandaid to human burn,
Human is ointment to human yearn.
Human is morning to human mourn,
Human is cure born of human churn.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“One day my memories will fade, but the world's memory of me will never fade - that's how I've lived my life.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Burn my books, and go lift the world! Let me live in your blood, not in books.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“I don't write for popularity, I write for posterity.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“The art of self-discovery is in self-annihilation.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Sonnet of Identity
Tell me O Mississippi,
What is my name?
For I lost my sense of self,
In line of service without gain.
Dear mountains of Blue Ridge,
Where did I come from?
I fathom not the worldly titles,
I deny narrowness as the norm.
Character makes the person,
Not pedigree and tradition.
If I can lift even five lives,
That’ll be my highest salvation.
So forget that I asked about my identity.
Service is my culture and my nationality.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“I need no praise, I need no offering,
A life of service is my paradise.
I need no reward, I need no award,
Nothing can put a price on sacrifice.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Take My Life (The Sonnet)
Take my life if you want,
But nothing can take my sight away.
Take my breath if you want,
But nothing can take my might away.
Take my feet if you want,
But nothing can take my journey away.
Take my arms if you want,
But nothing can take my touch away.
Take my tongue if you want,
But nothing can take my voice away.
Take my bones if you want,
But nothing can take my will away.
You can erase me from earth if you so desire,
But you can't stop my ideas from spreading like wildfire.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“I cannot breathe without people.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Act is the fact, deed is the creed.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Rationality bends under pressure,
Thought bends under pressure,
Intelligence bends under pressure -
Only love is crazy enough to stand unbent,
even under pressure of cataclysmic proportion.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Where there is a place for love, there is place for everything else.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Servant-consciousness is God-consciousness.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“One dreamer awake in love invigorates the whole world.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Naskaristana 2789
I arrived with a clever brain,
walked among clever apes,
studied history written by winners,
so I could earn some ape respect.
Then I got weary of all the hypocrisy,
idolizing morons as savior of humanity,
mistaking the lens for the landscape,
confusing privilege as social sanity -
frustrated I plunged into fire,
brain, vanity, esteem, the lot,
all reputation burnt to ashes,
what remain is unflinching humanity.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“I am controversial because I ask for tolerance, I am controversial because I'm integration incarnate, I am controversial because I call for humanity, at the expense of both faith and facts.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Go Burn My Verses (Sonnet 2636)
Burn the verses, I'll write fiction -
burn the fiction, I'll write music -
burn the music, I'll adopt a new language -
burn the language, I'll pick up paintbrush -
burn the paintbrush, I'll grab a soldering iron.
Take away one medium, I'll adopt a new one,
apes don't have the braincells to sabotage my mission.
The only unstoppable organism in the universe,
is the mind that embraces evolution over limitation.
You keep asking, how do I write so immense -
I keep asking, where's the off switch for this!
Every time I decide to take a breather,
ideas start pouring, so I keep typing restless.
You're welcome to burn all my verses,
still you cannot dampen the spark of oneness.
Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another -
truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another - truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“There is no law, only I am -
no grand design, no master clan -
no sacred script, no chosen land,
only beating hearts and helping hands.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“If you fail to call any country your own, if the whole charade of nationality and tribal identity feels meaningless to you, then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“If the whole charade of nationality feels meaningless to you, then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Khoon nahi, Rehmat pehchaan;
Ek hi ummah - saara jahaan!
Ek hi kalma - pyar ka peygaam;
Jai Insaan, Noor-e Nadaan!”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it’s obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scientifiction, I regret the lack of any female writers but only Radclyffe Hall opened my eyes outside sci-fi.
I was a secular humanist before I knew the term. I have not believed in God since childhood's end. I believe a belief in any deity is adolescent, shameful and dangerous. How would you feel, surrounded by billions of human beings taking Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy and the stork seriously, and capable of shaming, maiming or murdering in their name? I am embarrassed to live in a world retaining any faith in church, prayer or a celestial creator. I do not believe in Heaven, Hell or a Hereafter; in angels, demons, ghosts, goblins, the Devil, vampires, ghouls, zombies, witches, warlocks, UFOs or other delusions; and in very few mundane individuals--politicians, lawyers, judges, priests, militarists, censors and just plain people. I respect the individual's right to abortion, suicide and euthanasia. I support birth control. I wish to Good that society were rid of smoking, drinking and drugs.
My hope for humanity - and I think sensible science fiction has a beneficial influence in this direction - is that one day everyone born will be whole in body and brain, will live a long life free from physical and emotional pain, will participate in a fulfilling way in their contribution to existence, will enjoy true love and friendship, will pity us 20th century barbarians who lived and died in an atrocious, anachronistic atmosphere of arson, rape, robbery, kidnapping, child abuse, insanity, murder, terrorism, war, smog, pollution, starvation and the other negative “norms” of our current civilization. I have devoted my life to amassing over a quarter million pieces of sf and fantasy as a present to posterity and I hope to be remembered as an altruist who would have been an accepted citizen of Utopia.”
“Where there is heart, there is hayat,
Heartless hayat is no hayat.
Call it hayat, life, or call it vida,
All of it begins across divisive dirt.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Everyone is family, everywhere is home.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“People are the truth of life,
Not some beliefs and biases.
People are the magic of my words,
People are the center of my poetries.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Luz, lux, noor - light by any name brings the same illumination.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Light by any name brings the same illumination.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Only truth in the cosmos is love,
All else is but lie.
Life's only truth is love,
All else is but death in disguise.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“In becoming one with people, even if you lose your language, along with every last trace of your so-called cultural background, that's not a loss, but an actual fulfillment of life.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work