Humanism
Humanism is a doctrine, attitude, or way of life centered on human interests or values, stressing an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason and other human skills. It usually rejects supernaturalism, but some religious people consider themselves humanists.See Secular Humanism, Religious (Spiritual) Humanism, New Humanism, Transhumanism
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philosopher, he went on "You know, then, that I was the model for his
Leuke, in the Pontus, the rest which he so richly deserves, after a life
Philostratus put the following verses--but they are mine--into his
for himself who was waiting there.
He required an audience when he sang. The Circus had accustomed him to
him. At last he swept the strings, and began singing in a well-trained
ear, the song.html">song to the echo on the shores of Pontus:
Echo, by the rolling waters
Wake, and answer to the lyre
Sing to Homer, to the bard
To the heroes of his lay.
He it was from death who snatched me;
Rescued, in perennial glory,
Ilion owes undying fame,
Which surround her deathless name.
The "Sword of Persia" seemed peculiarly affected by his master's song,
imperial virtuoso had concluded, a discordant cry sounded for a short
arose from the crowd who were waiting round the Serapeum to see Caesar
waxed louder, he gave a sidelong glance toward the place from which it
applause rose from the antechamber. They proceeded from the friends of
with the cries they had learned in the Circus, lent such impetuous force
him with a blush, he answered with a smile: "There is something frank
Forced applause sounds differently. There must be something in my
are overready to show me what they think. It did not escape me, and I
Ode to Aphrodite. Pale, and as if obeying some strange compulsion, she
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