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

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

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

To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

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

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.