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Sense Quotes by Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger…
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
- We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
- Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the…
- Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical…
- Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open…
- Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East -…
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
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- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
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- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
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