When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
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.
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
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