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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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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
— Karen Armstrong
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
— Les Brown
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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
— Jim Carrey
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Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences…
— Jurgen Habermas
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Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and…
— Michael Ruse
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating…
— Edward Abbey
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Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview…
— John Michael Greer
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The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize…
— Thomas Szasz
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a…
— Daniel Dennett
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