# Quote — Karen Armstrong, Muhammad

> All truly creative thought is in some sense intuitive; it demands a leap forward into the dark world of uncreated reality. Seen in this way, intuition is not the abdication of reason but rather reason speeded up, encapsulated in an instant, so that a solution appears without the usual laborious logical preparations. A creative genius comes back from this undiscovered country like ones of the heroes of antiquity, who has wrested something back from the gods and brought it to mankind. It is possible, perhaps, to see religious inspiration in a similar way.

- Author: [Karen Armstrong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-armstrong.md)
- Book: [Muhammad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-armstrong/muhammad.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong#Muhammad:_A_Biography_of_The_Prophet_(2001)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-armstrong/muhammad/all-truly-creative

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> Muslims respect the pacifist message of Jesus (even though the Qu'ran points out that Christians can be very belligerent but they accept that force is sometimes necessary. If tyrants and loathsome regimes were not opposed militarily, evil would have swamped the whole world.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-armstrong/muhammad/muslims-respect-the.md)

> Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-armstrong/muhammad/deeds-that-seemed.md)

> Monotheism is essentially inimical to tribalism: it demands that a people unite in a single community.

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