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Pronunciation: [hjˈuːmɐnˌɪsts] (IPA)

"Humanists" can be described using a variety of synonyms, each reflecting a slightly different emphasis. For example, "humanitarians" highlights a concern for the welfare and dignity of all people, while "philanthropists" emphasizes a commitment to charitable work and the promotion of social welfare. "Secularists" draws attention to the rejection of religious authority or influence in favor of rationalism and individual autonomy, and "enlightenment thinkers" situates humanism in the historical context of the 18th century Enlightenment. Ultimately, the word "humanists" refers to a diverse group of individuals and movements that share a focus on the potential and value of human beings to create positive change and progress in society.
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This was the ideal of the humanists, and it contains ample and wide-reaching positive features; but when it came to practical action they preferred for the present to take up an attitude of simple but implacable negation to the existing order of things.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Domsie was only a pedantic old parish schoolmaster, and he knew little beyond his craft, but the spirit of the humanists awoke within him, and he smote with all his might, bidding goodbye to his English as one flings away the scabbard of a sword.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
Most of these "modern Arians and Antitrinitarians," as they are called in the Twelfth Article of the Formula of Concord came from the skeptical circles of humanists in Italy.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente

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  • Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
    Irving Babbitt
  • Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.
    Tom Flynn
  • When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
    Walter Lippmann
  • This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.
    Janet Suzman
  • The prevailing situation of criticism ... has given rise to a cult of professional expertise whose effect in general is pernicious. For the intellectual class, expertise has usually been a service rendered, and sold, to the central authority of society. This is the of which Julien Benda spoke in the 1920s. Expertise in foreign affairs, for example, has usually meant the legitimization of the conduct of foreign policy and, what is more to the point, a sustained investment in revalidating the role of experts in foreign affairs. The same sort of thing is true of literary critics and professional humanists, except that their expertise is based upon noninterference in what Vico grandly calls the world of nations but which prosaically might just as well be called “the world.” We tell our students and our general constituency that we defend the classics, the virtues of a liberal education, and the precious pleasures of literature even as we also show ourselves to be silent (perhaps incompetent) about the historical and social world in which all these things take place. ...
    Edward Said

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