Abdolkarim Soroush
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 and start equating them with reality.

Abdolkarim Soroush
Abdolkarim Soroush

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Aberjhani
Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Abhay Deol
Abhay Deol

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

Abhay Deol
Abhay Deol

When there is stuff being written about your family and people ask you questions which are very personal in nature, it makes you defensive and almost makes you angry.

Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On the other hand, insurance policies that only treat certain catastrophic illnesses are hard to comprehend, especially of you are illiterate and unused to the legalistic nature of exclusions etc.

Abhishek Banerjee
Abhishek Banerjee

Everybody loves animals, but there is this special bond that few people have with animals and with nature.

Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.