RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 20 August 2013 10:27:50PM 1 point [-]

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Micah 6: 7-8

Comment author: gwern 01 September 2013 11:03:04PM 2 points [-]

"Not to commit evils,
But to practice all good,
And to keep the heart pure -
This is the teaching of the Buddhas."

--multiple sutras