- People matter more than ideas.
- People have many ways of knowing, many ways of discovering and expressing what it means to be human. All ways matter. Art is universal.
- Science, mathematics, and scholarship are universal human expressions testable and provable in all human cultures. These are universal human projects toward a consensus reality.
- Knowledge must be tempered with the humbleness of wisdom. While Humanist practice bases itself in human knowledge at a given time and place, knowledge is contingent—the truism of today becoming the obsolete artifact of tomorrow.
- Evolution is the greatest story of all, combining the cosmos with the human ethos.
- Humanists see people as of central concern not because of any specialness as a species but because of our capacity to both heal and destroy ourselves, the planet, and all living things.
- Humanism is devotion to nature and all life.