The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism
— Albert Einstein
The first proof of a well ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself
— Seneca
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely
— Jorge Luis Borges
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education
— John Ruskin
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware
— Henry Miller
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself
— Aldous Huxley
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy
— Dean Inge
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us
— Adlai Stevenson
MAN. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be
— Ambrose Bierce
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth
— Gandhi
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people
— Miles Franklin
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow
— Aesop
Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours
— Richard Bach
Self-reflection is the school of wisdom
— Baltasar Gracián
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue