Best 212 quotes in «dogma quotes» category

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

Every dogma has its day.

Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

He said that faith is like a glass of water. When you're young, the glass is small, and it's easy to fill up. But the older you get, the bigger the glass gets, and the same amount of liquid doesn't fill it anymore. Periodically, the glass has to be refilled.

However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.

Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.

If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic and wanting to engage in all these military interventions across the planet. That's all absurd.

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.

I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding "truth": dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

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.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

My karma just ran over my dogma.

Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.