Huston Smith

The most powerful moral influence is example. ↗

— Huston Smith

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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. ↗

— Huston Smith

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Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self. ↗

— Huston Smith

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So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues. ↗

— Huston Smith

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The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. ↗

— Huston Smith

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The faith I was born into formed me. ↗

— Huston Smith

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The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them. ↗

— Huston Smith

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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade. ↗

— Huston Smith

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When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones. ↗

— Huston Smith

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Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet. ↗

— Huston Smith

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