“The most important segments of many religious dogmas are not their ethical principles, but rather factual statements such as ‘God exists’, ‘the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect… — Marston Bates 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
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual…Physically and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually,… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“Could the dogma of particular election as understood by some theological traditions be the projection of faulty human love into the very… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
'Monster Hunter' was its own series, its own franchise, and it just so happened that we wanted to make a realistic fantasy-based… — Hideaki Itsuno Copy Share Image
When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma… — Peter Hain Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to… — Thomas Ravenel Copy Share Image
“They don’t need another dogma or formula for living. They don’t need another tight schedule where they are expected to rush to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still… — Alice Bag Copy Share Image
The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is where faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain… — Justin Villanueva Copy Share Image
