Autumn Quote by Oscar Wilde

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

— William Vogt

“It goes without saying that one generally should not try to dissolve disparate creeds into one another, much less into some vague, syncretistic, doctrinally…

— David Bentley Hart

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

— Mark Twain

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

— Henry David Thoreau

Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations.…

— Charles Bates

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

— Elbert Hubbard

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

— Dan Fogelberg

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

— William Golding

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

— Anonymous

To philosophize means to make vivid.

— Novalis

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

— Mahatma Gandhi