Tolerance

“Es más conveniente al filósofo, incluso al cristiano, seguir varias escuelas a voluntad, que elegir una sola a que adscribirse.”

“Pagan patriotism is the love of one’s own coupled with hate of all others. However, Christian love of the Fatherland, embracing all people, unites Christians with adversaries and enemies.”

“Sharing spirituality across religious boundaries will make us neighbours who honour each other's specificities while at the same time seeking mutual caring and sharing and learning together.”

“To understand a culture is to say to yourself, If I’d been living then I could conceive that I could have believed that and remained rational and been quite a decent sort of person.”

“Interreligious dialogue is seen as a necessity in any society, as a way to build bridges in an increasingly diverging world.”

“I started as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without having ceased to be a Christian.”

“I believe in the sincerity of the Chinese leadership about peaceful coexistence between nations with different political systems.”

“The Lebanese had created, preserved, defended, affirmed and advanced an expansive and liberal civilization.”

“There must not be us and them – there are only us.”

“Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole—such is the law of growth.”

“Ich suche mir immer fremde Identitäten aus, weil der Fremde der Gradmesser ist für die Demokratie in einer Gesellschaft.”

“I don’t see music in a way that’s like, Oh, this is right, this is wrong, this is better, this is worse.”