Individual/buddhism

Famous quotes containing the words individual and/or buddhism:

“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“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)