A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Religious dogma not only results in the form of gross, zealous behavior such as the killing of ethnic minorities as part of… — Martin Dansky 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
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“For reincarnation is neither a dogma, i.e. a truth necessary for salvation, nor a heresy, i.e. contrary to a truth necessary for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
“From the very beginning of the movement in the sixteenth century, Anabaptists shared a deep suspicion of the so-called Schriftgelehrten - the… — John D. Roth Copy Share Image
The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“There is no equality between fact and fiction, and anyone who purports themselves to be an academic and still puts religious dogma… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't think most people join white supremacist groups because of the ideology or dogma. They gravitate to these groups because… — Christian Picciolini 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
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — Jane Jacobs 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
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
