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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason – to believe something by faith – is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Look at the blogosphere – the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
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Religion and science have a common ancestor – ignorance.
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I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton’s head.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?
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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.
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It doesn’t have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being – Everything is full of wonder.
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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