A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.