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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
— Karen Armstrong
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
— Les Brown
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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
— Jim Carrey
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Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences…
— Jurgen Habermas
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Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and…
— Michael Ruse
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating…
— Edward Abbey
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Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview…
— John Michael Greer
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The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize…
— Thomas Szasz
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a…
— Daniel Dennett
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