Paul Kurtz Quotes

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 government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

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

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

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports
in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

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