"...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place,……" — Huston Smith
"...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'."
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81 Quotes by Huston Smith
Huston Smith has 81 quotes on this site.
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
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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…
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that…
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More Clamoring Quotes
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Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against…
— Leonard Bishop
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When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord…
— Emma Goldman
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Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the…
— August Strindberg
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Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances…
— Emma Goldman
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I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better…
— Bill Hicks
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One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when…
— William Matthews
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Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance…
— Tony Hawk
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're…
— Ralph Ellison
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Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more…
— Jonah Goldberg
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You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that…
— Jack White
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We deeply regret that some Senators are still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, and we now turn to the…
— Carl Pope
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