#doctrine

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. ↗

— Athanasius

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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ↗

— Tony Benn

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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#bad #being #darker #doctrine #existence

After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. ↗

— Joseph Lister

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