Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.