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Corliss Lamont (March 28, 1902 – April 26, 1995) was an American socialist philosopher and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. As a part of his political activities he was the Chairman of National Council of American-Soviet Friendship starting from the early 1940s.

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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.

Choices, Decision, Making, Men, Moment, Two

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

Central, Ethics, Realms, Various, Willing

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

Duty, Ethical, Ethics, Morality, Past

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.

Contends, Creating, Giving, Human, Imagination, Place

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.

Brings, Death, Honesty, Man, Men, Wise

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.

According, Acting, Altogether, Character, Self, True

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.

Eternal, Mean, Men, Simply, Soul, Supernatural

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. '

Academy, Character, Feeble, Foundation, Heart, Together

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Intuition, Doe, Philosopher, Amount, Disregarded, Knowledge

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.

Advances, Intelligent, Men, Miracles, Prayer, Techniques

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Anywhere, Brain, Brains, Causes, Effects, Nature

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.

Cities, Family, Feelings, Nation, Unit

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. . . .

Art, Outworn, Philosophy, Poetry, Religious

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.

Acts, Men, Philosophy, Self, Social, Unsound

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

Morality, Narrowing, Neglect, Sex

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.

Activities, Believe, Good Life, Harmoniously, Personal, Self