Humanism Quotes

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

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

Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.

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.

Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

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.

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

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

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.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.

Human you are, and your religion, Humanism.

No God, Religion, Race or Nation is higher than the humans.

The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.

There is only one label worth fighting for, nay, not fighting for, that is “human”.

The salvation of the species, lies in knowing the Self – it lies in contributing to the wellbeing of the Selves of others.

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

Only fools neglect the living God – the Human Self, while running after imaginary shadows.

Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed.

Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

Without sound, There would be no music.And without music, There would be no life.And without a life force, There would be no matter.But it does not matter -Because what is matter, If there is no light?

Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.

My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.

I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity.

I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers.

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion.

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity.

Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.

If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional.

Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.