To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
“Most reject the more repugnant or indefensible dogmas while still holding onto some core belief. Many believers will proudly describe themselves as… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
“Samatha meditation is a theologically neutral spiritual practice. No devotion to a deity, guru, or dogma is needed to see remarkable results.” — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
“I remember on one of my many visits with Thomas A. Edison , I brought up the question of Ingersoll . I… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
Apparently Pope John Paul II and his boys - is that what you call them? - loved one of my songs and… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling… — Leonard Lawlor Copy Share Image
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
