Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )” — Sting Copy Share Image
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
The doctrine/dogma existed yesterday, it still exists today and will exist tomorrow. The world stands on its strength. The day it ends,… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . . — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
“It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“I am often asked what will replace organized religion. The answer, I believe, is nothing and everything. Nothing need replace its ludicrous… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Whereas in Europe new ideas were forced to compete against other doctrines and attitudes, with the results that people tended towards healthy… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
