“So long as there is a human heart warm with blood and burning with the fire of life, the intellect however powerful will never be able to trample it under foot.
Conversation
Replying to
Indeed, the more severely the religious sentiment is tested in the crucible of the intellect, the more glorious and illuminating becomes its intrinsic value.
1
The true religion is, therefore, never reluctant to appear before the tribunal of scientific investigation. In fact by ignoring the ultimate significance of the religious consciousness, science is digging its own grave.
1
For what purpose has science other than the unravelling of the mysteries of nature and reading into the meaning of existence? And is this not what constitutes the foundation of religion?”
— D. T. Suzuki, “Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism”