It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
