Top 168 Humanism Quotes & Sayings

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you that the experience of humanism is that — as Terence expressed it — “Nothing human is alien to me”; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and I am the saint. I am the child and I am the adult. I am the man who lived a hundred thousand years ago and I am the man who, provided we don't destroy the human race, will live hundred thousand years from now.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.

The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

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.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

Dutch values are based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism.

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

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.

Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is itself a religion without God-not all religions, of course, are theistic. Our ethical secular ideal has it's own disciplines of mind and heart and gives people the means of finding faith in the ultimate meaning of human life that were once provided by the more conventional religions.

Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?

For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.

Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

We need to inject humanism into our AI education and research by injecting all walks of life into the process.

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is a rival "religion" and seeking to root it out from American public life. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the axiom that the wretched of the earth, understood socially, think and thus must be a basis of a new politics. This, of course, is not achieved immediately, but it must become an explicit element of the struggle for liberation.

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it's not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.

Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.

Secular humanism debases the human.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.