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

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

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

There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.

God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

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.