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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.


Antonio Tabucchi


#doctrines #ideas #perfection #totalitarian

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.


Joseph Priestley


#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.


Iain Pears


#blind-faith #disagreement #discussion #doctrine #faith

Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage.


Gene Edward Veith


#novelty #worship #music

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.


Ambrose Bierce


#belief #doctrine #everything #including #optimism

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.


Martin Chemnitz


#apostles #christ #church #counsel #delivered

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.


Barry Unsworth


#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.


Vernon A. Walters


#constructive #doctrine #i #participant

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.


Immanuel Kant


#happiness #happy #how #make #may






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