Quotes by Huston Smith

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.