A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions to which one is often subjected.