"In nature, the emphasis is in what is……" — Huston Smith
"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."
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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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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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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul…
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My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater…
— Roseanne Barr
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
— Conrad Black
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous…
— Ruben Blades
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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
— Tony Blair
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to…
— David Brinkley
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach…
— Mitch Albom
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the…
— Edward de Bono
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Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history…
— Douglas MacArthur
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I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success…
— Mary Kay Ash
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