1,139 Quotes About Humanism

What are you good for, if your life doesn't make a single trace of contribution in the alleviation of people's misery!

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Healthy longtime atheists are proof that believing in God is not a biological need.

We are both preachers. He preached the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I preached my philosophy.He asked me: “Do you pray?”“No.”“Do you beseech God to forgive your trespasses?”“No.”“Do you not thank God for his bounty?”“No.”“Do you not depend on God's support?”“No.”And with this his puzzlement increased until he was assured that my fate lies in hell indeed.

To the militant atheist I say, there's more to life than cold facts. And at the same time, to the religious fanatics I say, there's more to life than blind faith.

...one is left wondering why the name "religious humanism"? It is difficult to become enthusiastic when one realizes that these men take to themselves the thunder of the atheists of the past, and under the misnomer, "religious," place before the public what all atheists of the past ages have been preaching.

In the not far distant past deism and pantheism served as a polite subterfuge for atheism. There is a growing tendency in this present age to dress one's atheistic belief in an evening suit, and for the sake of social approbation call such a belief "religious humanism.

Neither Christ, nor Krishna, nor Superman,No imagination can rescue humanity.Each of us is the only helpline,Human salvation is human responsibility.

Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we would call them gameplans. A person can erect some sort of structure, some type of limited frame in which he lives, shutting himself up in that frame and not looking beyond it.