Quotes by Corliss Lamont - Page 1

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
Corliss Lamont / Philosopher
Truth
Free Will
Giving
Intuition
Free Will Free Will
Truth Free Will
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The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.
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Ethics
Morality
Past
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I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
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Freedom
Men
Believe
Decision
Ethical
Prerogative
True Freedom
Decisions
Freedom Believe I Believe
Choice
Firmly
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Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
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Disregarded
Doe
Intuition
Philosopher
Philosophers
Psychologists
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The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
Corliss Lamont / Philosopher
Courses
Ethics
Realms
Willing
Central
Choosing
Conduct
Realm
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Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
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Morality
Neglect
Sex
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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
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Brain
Causes
Effects
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Brains
Determining
Inescapable
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Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
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Action
Advancing
Human Beings
Movement
Ongoing
Actions
Constitute
Crest
Surging
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The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
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Creative
Effects
Genuine
Initiative
Conditioned
Dynamic
Possesses
Presents
Restricted
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The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
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Wise
Men
Honesty
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True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Corliss Lamont / Philosopher
Freedom
Independence
Acting
Capacity
Character
Coercion
Self
True Character
According
Altogether
True
Outside
Subject
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Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.
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Humanist
Improvement
Philosophy
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Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.
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Men
Convinced
Decision
Significant
Two
Unmistakable
Roads
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We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.
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Born
Doe
Fate
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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.
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Democracy
Humanity
Philosophy
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Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community.
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Believe
Good Life
Self
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Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.
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Family
Cities
Feelings
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Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.
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Atmosphere
Democracy
Liberty
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The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.
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Men
Philosophy
Self
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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.
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Men
Mean
Soul
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There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.
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Imagination
Creating
Giving
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I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .
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Art
Philosophy
Religious
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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.'
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Character
Heart
Together
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God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.
Corliss Lamont / Philosopher
Men
Intelligent
Prayer
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