"A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings."

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Source : Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books

Michael Lerner

#Spiritual Quotes #Religious Quotes #Ethos Quotes

“Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.”

Source : Ernest Gellner (2005). “Words and Things: An Examination Of, and an Attack On, Linguistic Philosophy”, p.139, Psychology Press
“The idea of making the industry live up to its legal responsibility is not going to die.”
“The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.”
“History is a pageant and not a philosophy.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1902). “Collected Essays”
“I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.”
“Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.”
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.”
“My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.”

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