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11 quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

Abdolkarim Soroush ( pronunction (help·info) ahb-dohl-kah-REEM soh-ROOSH[needs IPA] عبدالكريم سروش), born Hosein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; Persian: حسين حاج فرج دباغ ), is an Iranian thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran and Imam Khomeini International University. He is arguably the most influential figure in religious intellectual movement in Iran. Soroush is currently a...
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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... →

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Compromise has a negative connotation.

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

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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... →

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