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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.
AAP does secular politics.
To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.
We're a very religious country; the government's secular.
The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.
I believe in all the secular values that Indian democracy is famous for.
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community.
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.
To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.
Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.
I come from a secular background.
Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?
In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing, and then it's to be considered and fine-tuned and even calculated.
For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people.
The forces of internationalism, humanism and solidarity will have to be victorious, or soon there will be nothing left of the human race.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.
Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.
The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.
I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.
Iraq's always been very secular.
The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is something more than a knowledge of matter the soul craves.
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.
IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.
Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true humanism.
Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.
The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.
The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.
One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
I believe in secular politics.
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
What I was able to bring to the Christian part of it was the humanism and the humanistic point of view. It was the hook in terms of being able to make that adjustment. I wasn't born Buddhist, so I do have some other traditions to pull from.
Secular music was not allowed in our household.
Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.
I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.
I have been with the Congress because I believe in a secular ideology.
