"I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I……" — Huston Smith
"I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations."
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81 Quotes by Huston Smith
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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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It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown.…
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I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind…
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Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out…
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The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people…
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I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin'…
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Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that…
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If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be…
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There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.
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