Dogma Quote by William James

“Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on…

— Holly Estil Cunningham

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

— E. O. Wilson

The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon…

— William James

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any…

— Max Horkheimer

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

— Alan Watts

The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond…

— John Dewey

“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,…

— G.K. Chesterton

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

— Paul Kurtz

“a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody—or at…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift…

— George H. Smith

“Reflection is and remains the hardest creditor in existence; hitherto it has cunningly bought up all the possible views of life, but it cannot…

— Søren Kierkegaard