The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most r….

Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny f….

Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution. He devi….

A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence..

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning..

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a….

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science.

It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not loc….

We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but ….

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support hi….

As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and of each man, is that he is condemne….

The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and dignity and will e….

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves..

Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organiz….

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence ….

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations..

Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we ma….

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from sci….

Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold..

The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultima….

In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religiou….