{"quotes":[{"text":"In the perspective of our species, life has favored humanity as a whole by promoting as much wealth of variety and options as possible, and has distributed everything using the four winds. Life has given mankind everything it has, without segregation and without consideration of which characteristic or quality best suits the situations or the periods. Only by having the totality of human characteristics and options can we hope to deal with all periods to come.Our collective is our key to survival and well-being.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["humanism","inspirational","perspective","self-knowledge","survival"],"id":260,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"},{"text":"Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["humanism","reason"],"id":2199,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is no synthesis at all, but only the latest maneuver in the war against rationality that has been conducted with rising hysteria by literary intellectuals and humanists against the laws of a culture they have reason to distrust and disobey. The Jungian theory proposes to every disaffected humanist his 'personal myth,' as a sanctuary against the modern world. Against the vulgar democracy of intelligence, Jungian theory proposes an aristocracy of feeling. From this proposal derives Jung's persistent influence on modern critical and aesthetic style.","author":"Philip Rieff","tags":["culture","humanism","modern-myth","modern-psychology","relativism","religion","truth"],"id":2865,"author_id":"Philip+Rieff"},{"text":"The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["american","brainy","global-citizen","global-citizenship","human-life","human-race","human-rights","humanism","humanist","humanist","humanists","humanity","humanity-and-society","humankind","inspirational","life","life-lessons","one-human-race","principia-humanitas","principles-of-humanism","service-of-humanity","wise","words-of-wisdom"],"id":3597,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","build-the-world","humanism","humanizing","inspirational","inspirational","inspiring","motivational","pearls-of-wisdom","wise"],"id":8315,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil. ","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["catholicism","humanism","religion"],"id":9492,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands. ","author":"Martin Amis","tags":["atheism","awe","humanism","reality","religion"],"id":9789,"author_id":"Martin+Amis"},{"text":"I believe that the universe was formed around 15 billion years ago and that humans have evolved from their apelike ancestors over the past few million years. I believe we are more likely to live a good life if all humans try to work together in a world community, preserving planet earth. When decisions for groups are made in this world, I believe that the democratic process should be used. To protect the individual, I believe in freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from religion, freedom of inquiry, and a wall of separation between church and state. When making decisions about what is right or wrong, I believe I should use my intelligence to reason about the likely consequences of my actions. I believe that I should try to increase the happiness of everyone by caring for other people and finding ways to cooperate. Never should my actions discriminate against people simply because of their race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, or national origin. I believe that ideas about what is right and wrong will change with education, so I am prepared to continually question ideas using evidence from experience and science. I believe there is no valid evidence to support claims for the existence of supernatural entities and deities. I will use these beliefs to guide my thinking and my actions until I find good reasons for revising them or replacing them with other beliefs that are more valid.","author":"Ronald P. Carver","tags":["humanism","philosophy","religion","science"],"id":10431,"author_id":"Ronald+P.+Carver"},{"text":"You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["achievement","bad-woman","brainy","female","female-beauty","female-characters","female-empowerment","female-hero","female-liberation","female-protagonist","females","feminine","feminine-power","femininity","feminism","feminism-identity","feminismo","feminist","feminist","feminists","girl","girl-power","girl","girls","good-woman","great-woman","great-women","humanism","humanity","humankind","inspirational","inspiring-women","leadership","leadership-development","man-and-woman","man-and-woman","mankind","neuropsychology","success","woman","woman","woman","woman-s-character","woman-s-strength","womanhood","women","women-and-men","women-empowerment","women","women-s-inspirational","women-s-rights","women-s-strength","womens-rights","words-of-wisdom"],"id":12283,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.","author":"Edward Said","tags":["history","human","humanism","resistance"],"id":14005,"author_id":"Edward+Said"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":451,"pages":46,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}