Famous Steve Hagen Quotes

  • To forget the self is to remember that we don’t exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe. – Steve Hagen

    To forget the self is to remember that we don’t exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.– Steve Hagen

  • We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence – Steve Hagen

    We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence– Steve Hagen

  • There’s nothing you can find – -¦ nothing you can even imagine -“ that doesn’t originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things. – Steve Hagen

    There’s nothing you can find – -¦ nothing you can even imagine -“ that doesn’t originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.– Steve Hagen

  • Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see -¦ [it] becomes unnecessary. – Steve Hagen

    Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see -¦ [it] becomes unnecessary.– Steve Hagen

  • We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about ‘coming back,’ and so on. But they are all stories. – Steve Hagen

    We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about ‘coming back,’ and so on. But they are all stories.– Steve Hagen

  • Good times come and go. And bad times do the same. – Steve Hagen

    Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.– Steve Hagen

  • [E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.] – Steve Hagen

    [E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]– Steve Hagen

  • Good and bad aren’t absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds. – Steve Hagen

    Good and bad aren’t absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.– Steve Hagen

  • If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain. – Steve Hagen

    If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.– Steve Hagen

  • Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality. – Steve Hagen

    Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.– Steve Hagen