"Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what……" — Huston Smith
"Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods."
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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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