Thomas Huxley Quotes

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.