Famous quotes containing the words essence and/or buddhism:
“Substances at base divided
In their summits are united;
There the holy essence rolls,
One through separated souls.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)