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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.
AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.
Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
A lot of people have a belief system that is strictly based on religious dogma.
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.
Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.
You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.
I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.
Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.
The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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.
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.