"The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding……" — Huston Smith
"The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives."
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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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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.
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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
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Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There…
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Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and…
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I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me,…
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We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental…
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My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
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