Karen Armstrong Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. November 14, 1944
Birthday: November 14
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.
source: "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009. 
topic: Mean, Practice, Two, Easy Answers, Fantasy Stories
