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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For…
— David Hume
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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
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Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of…
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The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them…
— Charlie Chaplin
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