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

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

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.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

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.

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.'