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Us Quotes by Karen Armstrong
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of…
- 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…
- And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can…
- Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique…
- Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is…
- Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then…
- A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
- Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth,…
- If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that…
- Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited…
- Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It…
- Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end…
- Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in…
- Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong