“The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.”— Idries Shah Related Quotes “We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.”— Neil Shubin “So, if someone like Richard Dawkins indignantly protests that his passion about these sorts of things — the passion that drives the “God Delusion” — should not be taken as a religious passion, I am happy to accept that. I do nevertheless think that often Dawkins and company show the sociological characteristics of the religious. This comes across particularly in what Freud calls the narcissism of small differences, the hatred of those who are close to them but not quite close enough. Just as evangelicals can differ bitterly over the true meaning of the host, so the New Atheists loathe people like me who (like them) have no religious belief but who think that science as such does not refute religion.[Is Darwinism a Religion? – Michael Ruse]”— Michael Ruse “It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are arti?ce.”— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin