Human Dignity, Universal Ethics, Empathy & Progress
Explore Renaissance and secular humanism—celebrating human agency, universal rights, compassion, art, literature, and ethical responsibility toward one another.
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'”
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
Compare perspectives across humanity's philosophical, spiritual, and secular traditions.