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“We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.”

“Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.”

Matter Choices Causes Voice Possibility Offers Dignity Commit Absurd Humanist No Hope Existentialist Hope Of Success

Author:David Simon

“To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be.”

People Writing Firsts Believe Novel Ought Originals Technique Humanist Establishment

Book:Writing a Novel

Source: Writing a Novel

“Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.”

Humanist Agnostic

Author:Hu Shih

“Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.”

Humans Character Age Spirit Economy Information Highest Aim Determined Our Society Humanist Engineers Google Aspire Propositions Human Spirit Processing Global Economy Competitiveness

Author:Leon Wieseltier

“Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.”

Form Fighting Struggle Democracy Rights Higher Civilization Equal Peaceful Humanist Equal Rights True Democracy

Author:Leyla Zana

“Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.”

Ideas Philosophy Humanity Greater Progress Benefits Humanism Humanist Application New Ideas Joyous Greater Good Scientific Progress

Author:Linus Pauling

“However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.”

Long Values Belief Struggle Share Mankind Triumph Firm Humanist Progressive Creativeness Firm Beliefs

Author:Tran ?uc Luong

“Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.”

House Secret Democracy Keys Balance Citizens Capable Humanist Involvement Reflecting Premises Equilibrium

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.”

Knows May Mean Persons Christian Belief Religious Expectations Rewards Punishment Behave Humanist Afterlife Religious Person

Book:God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

“I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.”

People Theory Humanist Misanthropic

Author:Bill Hicks

“We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.”

Want Government Humanist Secular Theocracy

Author:Gary DeMar

“What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.”

Humans Belief Black Race Jew Human Race Humanist

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”

Inspirational Giving Self Light Darkness Inspirational Life Disappear Uplifting Humanist Theologian Self Empowerment Light And Dark Darkness To Light Light Of The World Candle Lights Giving Light Light Life

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.”

Source: The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity

“Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.”

Humans I Can Human Beings Existence Special Effects Claims Constant Jew Violent Soil Humanist Insignificant Thrust Pacifist Special Places Upheaval

Author:Stefan Zweig

“The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive”

Shows Bears Holy Humanist Merciful

Author:Timothy Keller

“I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.”

People Men World Would Be Christian Lasts Evil Social Church Movement Committed Various Humanitarian Cures Sincere Humanist Dedicated Uncommitted Social Evils

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.”

“Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.”

Humans Science Used Human Beings Humanist Ethos

Author:Max Lerner

“As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.”

Kind Different Belief Religious Views Scientist Claims Humanist Religious Belief Compatible

Book:The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

Source: The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

“The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”

Mind Humans Belief Race Four Taste Curiosity Humanism Human Race Characteristics Humanist Good Taste

Book:Two Cheers for Democracy

Source: Two Cheers for Democracy

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