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

- Abdolkarim Soroush

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came in…

- Abdolkarim Soroush

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…

- Abdolkarim Soroush

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

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

- Abdolkarim Soroush

Compromise has a negative connotation.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

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

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…

- Abdolkarim Soroush

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…

- Abdolkarim Soroush