Reserved Quote by Huston Smith

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

— Hu Shih

Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him…

— Joseph Conrad

“He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The provision is very inferior to the cities of refuge which were set apart by Moses for the manslayer to flee to from the…

— Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

“concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other words, preoccupies…

— Alan Wilson Watts

What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

— Anonymous

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

— Joan Didion

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

— Kim Edwards

All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like…

— Zhuangzi

God wasn't powerful because he was right. He was right because he was powerful.

— Genevieve

“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne