Quotes by : Stephen Batchelor

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can....

For me, Buddhism is like a living organism. If it is to flourish outside self-enclosed ghettos of believers,....

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty,....

We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of ‘civilized’ manners and ‘cultured’....

No matter how hard I tried, I was incapable of giving more importance to a hypothetical, post-mortem....

I know very little with anything approaching certainty. I know that I was born, that I exist, and that....

I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of....

We are participatory beings who inhabit a participatory reality, seeking relationships that enhance our....

Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while....

Letting go of a craving is not rejecting it but allowing it to be itself: a contingent state of mind....