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Karen Armstrong has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view,…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
— Laurence Sterne
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There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
— John Steinbeck
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from…
— Horace
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
— Mark Twain
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose,…
— V.S. Naipaul
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If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more…
— Joanna Lumley
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Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman.…
— Sam Keen
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When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned…
— Thomas Dolby
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Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other…
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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If I would have been in a different world Like I frequently am when I see you Oh I might have missed…
— Ric Ocasek
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