Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that's really what faith is. There's a large place in the… — Stephen J. Dubner 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
I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma… — Marya Mannes 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
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small… — Colm Toibin 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
“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
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors… — Neil Steinberg 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
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally,… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty;… — Stephanie Pace Marshall Copy Share Image
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma;… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
“We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a… — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions,… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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
If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
