Paul Kurtz Quotes
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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I play. But this is what I think.
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Every instrument requires to be made by experience.
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Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
