#doctrine

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be said even that the modern world, as a corporate body, holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogmas. It may be thought 'dogmatic,' for instance, in some circles accounted progressive, to assume the perfection or improvement of man in another world. But it is not thought "dogmatic" to assume the perfection or improvement of man in this world; though that idea of progress is quite as unproved as the idea of immortality, and from a rationalistic point of view quite as improbable. Progress happens to be one of our dogmas, and a dogma means a thing which is not thought dogmatic. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#doctrine #dogma #progress #rationalism #truth

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#assigned #branch #doctrine #executive #exercises

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#blank #blank slate #doctrine #equals #fact

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. ↗

— Walter Rauschenbusch

#doctrine #every #generation #high #put

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ease #i #i wish #ignoble #life

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. ↗

— Harlan Stone

#because #between #citizens #distinctions #doctrine

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#common-sense #did #doctrines #earliest #economy

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#doctrines #exaggerated #goes #individual #jealousy

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#cannot #causes #church #convey #dangerous

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral