Authority Quote by Ayn Rand

“Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as…

— Timothy Keller

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but…

— Julian Baggini

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

— Voltaire

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

— Edward Abbey

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

— Karl Barth

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

— Joseph de Maistre

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

— Timothy Keller

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

— Robert M. Hutchins

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

— Dallas Willard

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

— Joe Orton

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of…

— Roger Brooke Taney