Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Something else changed when querinalo changed. Our immortality began to become—it is difficult to explain. None of us began to age, nor… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that… — Bob Altemeyer Copy Share Image
Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Any theology that starts with ethnic narcissism, by default becomes the lowest form of smut on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we… — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image