How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world dimi...
We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with the groupthink of church and society in order to live their own lives. (It’s why you sti...
The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and never will serve humanity in any ultimately beneficial way. Any benefits that spirituality ostensib...
Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the time that’s a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep dow...
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we'...
A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth) and his Kama (pleasure or sensual gratification), and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure ...
You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from m...
Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.
Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.
I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
Intelligence is the key to achieve your dreams.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
