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Dogma Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable,…
- Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its…
- RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are…
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
- Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at…
- Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
- The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for…
- The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even…
- All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between…
- I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is…
- The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by…
More Dogma Quotes
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger
- Every dogma has its day. — Anthony Burgess
- 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
- Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of… — Deepak Chopra
- All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp,… — Deepak Chopra
- Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one… — B R Ambedkar
- The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific… — Thomas Aquinas
- Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by… — PZ Myers
- Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the… — Tom Robbins