Paul Kurtz Quotes

#1. You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

Olivia Wilde

#2. The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.

Paul Kurtz

#3. Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports
in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Paul Kurtz

#4. Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.

Guy Kawasaki

#5. We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

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#6. Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

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#7. To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.

Anthony De Mello

#8. We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.

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#9. No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

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#10. Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

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#11. No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

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#12. Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.

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#13. Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.

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#14. Every mother needs a wife.

Amy Poehler

#15. I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

Nick Wechsler

#16. Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

Walter Isaacson

#18. Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

Douglas Rushkoff

#19. The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

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#20. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

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#21. Nothing says "i came here to win" like jazz hands

Josh Ramsay

#22. The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

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#23. Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.

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#24. Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

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#25. The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

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#26. The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

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#27. What I remember about that experience is that if you went to go see ' Born On The Fourth Of July' and you happened to take a bathroom break real quick or grab some popcorn, you probably missed me. It was short, but it was memorable.

Vivica A. Fox

#28. Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children ... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

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#29. Osbert Mulliner was simply unequal to the task of tackling cavemen.

P.G. Wodehouse

#30. Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

Paul Kurtz

#31. Musa pushed Hamza along. "Should we hurry too?"
"No need to. You never know if you're running from a bomb or towards one.

Ahmet M. Rahmanovic