Huston Smith Quotes

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

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• I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Always
  • Young

• I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Maternal

• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Occurred

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Middle
  • East
  • Obviously

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Organs

• The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Writing
  • Patience
  • Boring

• I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Fan
  • Seth Rollins

• I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Think

• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War
  • Warrior

• We thought it would be enough to tell of the tidal wave of hatred which broke over the Jewish people for men everywhere to decide once and for all to put an end to hatred of anyone who is 'different' - whether black or white, Jew or Arab, Christian or Moslem - anyone whose orientation differs politically, philosophically, sexually.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• I've played for a lot of tough crowds.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Play
  • Crowds

• I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink beer, take photos, get lost in the music and generally be themselves. And because a field has no rules, it's the perfect place to create unlikely combinations of musical genres.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • People
  • Music
  • Lost

• Prince Philippe is well prepared to succeed me.

  

  Albert II of Belgium
  • Prince

• For every company that sees the value of their capital go up, there's another company that has been disrupted, and the value of their capital gets marked down because it's not going to compete in the same way.

  

  Charles L. Evans
  • Up
  • Value

• Some people today claim that cultures rooted in oral tradition are far more careful to make certain that traditions that are told and retold are not changed significantly. This turns out to be a modern myth, however. Anthropologists who have studied oral cultures show that just the opposite is the case. Only literary cultures have a concern for exact replication of the facts “as they really are.” And this is because in literary cultures, it is possible to check the sources to see whether someone has changed a story. In oral cultures, it is widely expected that stories will indeed change—they change anytime a storyteller is telling a story in a new context. New contexts require new ways of telling stories. Thus, oral cultures historically have seen no problem with altering accounts as they were told and retold.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Change
  • Tradition
  • Myth

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Age
  • Lies

• Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Experience
  • Makeup