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I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

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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.

Humanism, Humanist, Improvement, Philosophy, Supernaturalism
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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.

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

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

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

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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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
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