Quote by Huston Smith
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own r

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. – Huston Smith

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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. – Huston Smith

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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson

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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson

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One persons religion is another persons cult. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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