Quote by Karen Armstrong
Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to funct

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us. – Karen Armstrong

Other quotes by Karen Armstrong

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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Religion
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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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Death
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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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Religion
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Science
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. – Larry Wall

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Science

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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Science

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. – John Charles Polanyi

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Science

I liked math – that was my favorite subject – and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. – Sally Ride

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Science

Random Quotes

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. – Voltaire

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Censorship

You know you’re a nurse if… you triage the laundry when at home: This pile needs immediate attention, the pile can wait, this pile, with a little stain stick will be OK until you get back to it. – Donna Wilk Cardillo

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Nurses

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid. – Kevin Spacey

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Family

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. – Isadora Duncan

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Experience