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.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Reality, Use, Coins

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• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  People, Needs, Firsts

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• In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Order, Answers, Clear

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• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Religious, Identity, Islam

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• Compromise has a negative connotation.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Negative, Compromise, Connotation

  "Abdolkarim Soroush: The goals of Iran's Green Movement". Interview with Robin Wright, www.csmonitor.com. January 6, 2010.

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• 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.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Islamic, Ethnicity, Aggravation

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• In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Names, People, Attention

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• 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.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Small Problems, Use, Break

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• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Energy, Physicist, Has Beens

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• If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

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  Expression, People, Identity

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