Dogma Quotes
370 Dogma quotes by 262 unique authors
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The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma…
— Colm Toibin
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Therefore, as always, make of this voice what you choose to make of it. Make of me what you choose to make of me, but…
— Jane Roberts
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Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science…
— Carl Sagan
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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
— Aldo Leopold
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In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is…
— Wilhelm Reich
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If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have…
— Zadie Smith
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
— Abraham Lincoln
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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned…
— Ayn Rand
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
— Salman Rushdie
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I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see…
— Che Guevara
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
— Margaret Atwood
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if…
— Frank Zappa
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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…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You can't pay a landlord in dogma.
— Jodi Picoult
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The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
— Albert Einstein
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Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;…
— Salman Rushdie
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In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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