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Abdolkarim Soroush has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on…
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they…
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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 will want…
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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 Islamic identity…
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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 of religious…
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these…
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy…
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and…
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the…
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Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing…
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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to…
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There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
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The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the…
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God does not make a mistake. What is a mistake? The dictionary says: a mistake is an error in action, opinion, or…
— Babloo
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