I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life. — Anagarika Govinda 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
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . . — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the… — B.S. Murthy 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
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Dogma is by definition nothing other than an interpretation of Scripture." The defined dogmas of our faith, then, encapsulate the Church's infallible… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
“Our religion, with its beliefs, rituals, and dogmas becomes another segment among all the other segments that constitute our linear and fragmented… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — George Washington Copy Share Image
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“[I]n the history of dogma [w]orld-old usages, laws and institutions continue to drag out their existence long after they have lost their… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I have my issues with organized religion and cafeteria-style religion, picking and choosing certain dogmas that apply or seem ethical while ignoring… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
“{ The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his funeral… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
“Man can hardly be defined, after the fashion of Carlyle, as an animal who makes tools; ants and beavers and many other… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In line with the total assault of scientific investigation and critical rationality on our most well-cherished and established intuitions, why should we… — Reza Negarestani Copy Share Image
Don't let fear and guilt control you, for they are the products of man made dogmas. — Peter Marley Copy Share Image