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Human Quotes by Huston Smith
- In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
- Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
- Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us.…
- Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason…
- A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or…
- As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
- I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
- Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated…
- If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
- I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his…
- At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals,…
- No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
- The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle