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.

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.

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

Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

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

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