Quotes with dogma

  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
  • And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
  • The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

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  • B. R. Ambedkar Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • George Moore Life is a rose that withers in the iron fist of dogma.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Carl Sagan A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau As a first approximation, I define ''belief'' not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Anthony Burgess Every dogma has its day.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • John Henry Newman From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • William Lyon Phelps The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Camille Paglia The Seventies theory explosion was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Karl Kraus The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated - namely, the lavatory.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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