Abdolkarim Soroush Quotes
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.