The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and… — Narayanananda Swami Copy Share Image
Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive;… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“To call the belief in substantial human equality a superstition is to insult superstition. It might be unwarranted to believe in leprechauns,… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Don't make of your religion an obsession, otherwise your trips to church will mean nothing but obligation; and your prayers will result… — Jean Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Faith is what I die for, dogma is what I kill for,’ as the saying has it; and the trouble is that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Read. Understand. Become. Take down the walls of dogma, political, religious, personal. Think for yourself! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or… — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a… — Robert Agostinelli Copy Share Image
I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
