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
I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
“EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.” — Abner Cole Copy Share Image
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions while fools are so certain about things. — Shannon L Alder Copy Share Image
Sometimes there is dogma in baking and sometimes there is not - you just have to know when to break the rules… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and… — Yehudi Menuhin 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
“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
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Science is only scientific for as long as it is open to self-criticism. When scientists refuse to embrace new findings because they… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork. — Camille Paglia 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
