No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought. — Kevin J. Anderson 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
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
“Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal 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
You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“The destiny of your soul is not predicated upon acceptance of a specific dogma that happens to be "correct." A loving God… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good… — Richard Ramirez 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
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
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. — William James 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
Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day. — Sumantra Ghoshal Copy Share Image
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no cant. There are too many people walking around thinking they're… — Rosie DiManno Copy Share Image
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside… — Seth Copy Share Image
“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Beyond doctrine or dogma, the most important component of religiosity is being kind to other people. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
“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
Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
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