Dogma Quotes - Page 9

• The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

  Immanuel Kant

  Acceptance, Growth, Atheism

  "Faith Or Fact" by Henry Moorehouse Taber, (p. 86), 1897.

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• There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

  John Dewey

  Education, Law, Soul

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• The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Liars, Blessing

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• Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

  Uta Hagen

  Women, Moving, Taken

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.

  James Henry Hammond

  Men, Slavery, Stones

  James Henry Hammond (1866). “Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina”, p.126

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• dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Reality, Shrinking, World

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• I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science, could become a dogma, can be explained only on sociological grounds.

  Ludwig von Bertalanffy

  Facts, Criteria, Theory

  "Perspectives on general system theory: scientific-philosophical studies".

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• To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

  Leonora Speyer

  Pedantry

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• If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Self, Rejection, Way

  Bernard Lonergan (2016). “A Second Collection”, p.16, University of Toronto Press

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• History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. xlvii, 1930.

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• In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I'm convinced that the desire to be real is everyone's divine imperative.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspirational, Real, Believe

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• I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Believe, Feminist

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• ...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them. Religious dogma and myth have been used very successfully either to suppress understanding or to twist the truth sufficiently to turn something positive into something negative.

  David Icke

  Religious, Understanding, Twists

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• Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Teaching, Atheism, Examination

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• The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

  H. L. Mencken

  Finals, Tests, Truth Is

  H.L. Mencken (1918). “Damn”, p.74, Рипол Классик

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• To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.

  Storm Jameson

  Eye, Risk, Mind

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.67, A&C Black

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• Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  God, Way, Limits

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Silly, Genius, Artistic

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Progress, Identity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2771, Delphi Classics

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• Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

  Brian Froud

  Wise, Reality, Connections

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• Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma.

  Suzy Kassem

  Hate, War, Love Is

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• The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mistake, Stories

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• Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

  James Russell Lowell

  Passion, Men, Political

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God.

  Unknown

  Believe, Humility, Judging

  "Doomed to Hell Fire and Damn-the-Nation" by Joanna Perry-Folino, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2013.

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• What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.

  Anthony Storr

  Religious, Numbers, Long

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