#humanist

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#civilized #humanists #longer #men #must

This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#am #anybody #because #else #forget

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. ↗

— George Grosz

#anything #atmosphere #destruction #felt #great

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

— Alfred L. Kroeber

#humanistic #humanities #most #sciences #scientific

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#art #based #character #consciousness #deep

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

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. ↗

— David Bowie

#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal

Razmišljam i ja ponekad o svom poreklu, naravno, ali pritom ne vidim bogomolje, simbole, ni šarene pantljike folklora kojima se kite konji Pripadnosti... (...) Razmišljam i ja ponekad o svom poreklu, naravno, ali naše Porodično Stablo vidim samo kao mladicu na obodu Velike Šume... Zamrznem tako likove na tajnoj večeri u bezimenoj podkarpatskoj gostionici, Sluge i Gospodare, Silne i Prepadnute, Lukave, Priglupe, Sretne... I mislim: koji je moj? Čiji sam ja to? Na talasima čije krvi penušaju mehurići moje embrionske duše, i u čijim se venama, a da grešan ni ne sluti, koprcaju kao punoglavci moja čula i tkiva, moj fosforni skelet, i usplahireno jato mladeža? Ali ne brinem puno o tome da li je Taj bio Srbin, Tatarin, Kozak? Ni da li se krstio, klanjao, pisao s leva na desno? Ne... Brinem jedino da nije bio podlac? Palikuća? Bratoubica? Ili je neko ko je sekao srce na kriške, da bude za sve... Neko kog su uvek pitali kad o čemu treba presuditi... I neko kome se i Bog obradovao kao dragom rođaku... Kada mu je umoran zakucao na Nebo... ↗

— Đorđe Balašević

#humanistic #inspirational #tolerance #inspirational

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#i #just #keep #me #person

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#great #humanist #present #seen #slump