Sarah Bakewell’s excellent book Humanly Possible is a great history of humanism. It is a history book, but it also is a book about a philosophy. Zora Neale Hurston was a writer I was first introduced to in college, when I was assigned her book Their Eyes Were Watching God. Little did I know at the time that Hurston was a free-thinker, which is why this quote showed up in Bakewell’s book. I thought it was both a beautiful sentence and a beautiful sentiment as soon as I read it. No need to make things up when reality is amazing enough.