Dogma Quotes

When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, sinc...

The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not t...

That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It se...

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted ...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wield...

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to re...

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Perhaps he even needs to have been a critic and a sceptic and a dogmatist and an historian, and in a...

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say ...

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must...

Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument mach...

Сè противречи едно на друго, сè протрчува едно крај друго, никаде нема сигурност. Сè може да се толк...

If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; the...

Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dogma t...

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere,...

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it ge...

Human reason reduced to its own resources is perfectly worthless, not only for creating but also for...

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. ...

The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of t...

Christianity is not a doctrine, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the huma...

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppr...

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll...

She spoke about it with such emphasis (somewhat affected) that I could see at once that I was hearin...

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he give...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes cert...

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My curr...

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the strai...

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any othe...

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")

For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offere...

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them una...

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious convictio...

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener...

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a...

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or...

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do m...