Huston Smith's Profile
Brief about Huston Smith: By info that we know Huston Smith was born at 1919-05-31. And also Huston Smith is American Theologian.
Some Huston Smith's quotes. Goto "Huston Smith's quotation" section for more.The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.
Tags: Age, Between, GoodWhen 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.
Tags: Scientific, True, TruthWhether 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.
Tags: Best, History, TimeWhen I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
Tags: Found, Read, SeemEvery society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Tags: Art, Religion, SocietyI am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
Tags: God, Human, LifeWalnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
Tags: Essence, However, PutExclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Tags: Dead, Hand, KnowledgeI grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
Tags: American, Granted, TakingIt's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
Tags: Art, Difficult, OftenRationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Tags: Dark, Science, WoodsFirst 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.
Tags: Political, Religion, SoulRelated topics
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