"It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide (comprehensive) as it is deep (profound). What he mined from that lode is a spiritual treasure."

-- Huston Smith

#Spiritual Quotes #Profound Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, wonâ€™t you? Because weâ€™re going to have a strange life.”
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
“A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”
“I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.”
“The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.”

Source : Samuel George Morton, George Combe (1839). “Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species”, p.87, Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall
“Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.”
“North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.”
“There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.”

Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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