Humanism

Humanism centres on human dignity, potential, and reason rather than divine authority.

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"My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great , it becomes impure and sordid."

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George Sarton· b. 1884View quote →

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🇺🇸Roger Ebert

"Progressive Magazine Transcript of Interview with Roger Ebert"

Irving Babbitt

🇺🇸Irving Babbitt

"When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills."

Pierre Charron

🇫🇷Pierre Charron

"Of Wisdom; in three books as translated by George Stanhope"

Huldrych Zwingli

Huldrych Zwingli

"Whatever your religious belief was, I know that you have been a good Confederate. May God forgive your sins!"

🇳🇬Leo Igwe

Social Activism

"Human beings are social beings with or without religion."

🇰🇪Richard Leakey

"I'm known for speaking my mind, a trait I probably inherited from my parents, Louis and Mary Leakey—neither of whom was renowned for tact."

🇺🇸George Sarton

"If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province."

Patricia Churchland

🇨🇦Patricia Churchland

"InConversation Radio Interview with Robyn Williams"

Nicholas of Cusa

Nicholas of Cusa

"I behold Thee, 0 Lord my God, in a kind of mental trance"

🇬🇧Brigid Brophy

"Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental" you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic," they mean they are going to make money out of it."

🇬🇧Julian Baggini

"If the house on the lake can become a new iteration of a philosophical retreat, that would pay homage to its first owner much more than any number of selfie-snapping visitors could."

🇩🇪Paul Kurtz

"Merely to critically attack religious beliefs is not sufficient. It leaves a vacuum. What are you for? We know what you're against, but what do you want to defend?"

Deendayal Upadhyaya

🇮🇳Deendayal Upadhyaya

"A monotonous life, lived without any purpose or direction, is not worth much. To achieve anything big in life, you should be prepared to risk your all and take a leap of faith for whatever they believed in."

Sonja Eggerickx

Sonja Eggerickx

"The overwhelming majority of countries fail to respect the rights of atheists and freethinkers although they have signed U.N agreements to treat all citizens equally."

Notable Quotes

"nothing is seen other than Thyself, art Thyself the object of Thyself"

— Nicholas of Cusa, b. 1401View →

"I behold Thee, 0 Lord my God, in a kind of mental trance"

— Nicholas of Cusa, b. 1401View →

"Of the inhabitants then of worlds other than our own we can know still less having no standards by which to appraise them."

— Nicholas of Cusa, b. 1401View →

"See, therefore, how you, the philosophers of various schools of thought, agree in the religion of the one God, whom you all presupposed in that which you as lovers of wisdom acknowledge"

— Nicholas of Cusa, b. 1401View →

"Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself."

— Nicholas of Cusa, b. 1401View →

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