B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

I think East Asian countries, I think they're very fortunate to have Buddhism survive as a strong influence because right from the time when Buddha himself, 2,500 years ago, made the point about the importance of education, and the word "Buddha" also means enlighten[ed] or educated. So all the Buddhist countries, not only Japan and Korea and China and Hong Kong and Thailand but also even Burma and Sri Lanka, had a higher level of education.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.

The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

Faith is not the opposite of reason.

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

Hinduism is not a codified religion.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.