Anthropocentrism Quotes

• That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Yield, Essentials, Would Be

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

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• The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use.

  Eric Pianka

  Attitude, Enemy, Use

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• Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

  Michael Fox

  Animal, Development, Disease

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• We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Men

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions by a spiritual awareness and moral commitment that transcend nationalism, racism, sexism, religious sectarianism, anthropocentrism, and the dualism between human culture and nature. This is the great issue for the 1990s and the twenty-first century.

  Steven Clark Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Religious, Commitment

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• Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

  Russell E. Train

  Religious, Teaching, West

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• The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough. "The End of Anthropocentrism?

  Mary Midgley

  Too Much, Trouble, Enough

  Mary Midgley (2000). “Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems of Philosophical Plumbing”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

  Lars Svendsen

  Profound, Boredom, Anthropomorphism

  Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.88, Reaktion Books

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• I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.

  Ilona Andrews

  Believe, Thinking, Men

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