Quote by Huston Smith
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, bu

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

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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. – Huston Smith

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Religion
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. – Huston Smith

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Intelligence
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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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Religion
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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. Its not a miracle we just decided to go. – Tom Hanks

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Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. – Marston Bates

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Science

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. – Robert Quillen

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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? – Carl Sagan

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