"We coin concepts and we use them to……" — Abdolkarim Soroush
"We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality."
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23 Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other…
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what…
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it…
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an…
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks…
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful…
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of…
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests…
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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