#humanist

I place a higher value on human life than on no human life. But only barely.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humanism #humanistic #humor #life #relationships

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#ethics #humanist-psychology #mental-health #socio-analysis #culture

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#humanist #i #race #remain #very

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked. ↗

— William Shatner

#basic #books #core #especially #humanistic

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#humanist #i #much #politically #politically correct

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. ↗

— Alfred L. Kroeber

#humanistic #humanities #most #sciences #scientific

So long as we do not permit faith to override our rational powers we should use those talents to explore the frontiers which lie at the outer limits of scientific observation. ↗

— Robert Christian

#religion-and-science #faith

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#few #humane #humanists #italian #really

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#cause #creed #designated #desire #faith