"Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in……" — Huston Smith
"Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are."
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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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More Cave Quotes
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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
— Margaret Atwood
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We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave.…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns…
— Colin McEnroe
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what…
— Candace Pert
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant…
— John Milton
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I guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Caveman the best. We called him Uncle Caveman because he lived…
— Jack Handey
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary…
— Eric Hoffer
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this…
— Terry Pratchett
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