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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss

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 scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. – Karen Armstrong

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Every fundamentalist movement Ive studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. – Karen Armstrong

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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 in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. – Karen Armstrong

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they dont want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. – Karen Armstrong

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I dont want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. – Henry David Thoreau

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Don Quixotes misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. – Franz Kafka

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