#dogma

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#dogma #freedom-of-thought #independent-thought #inspirational #politics

I'm not dogmatic. ↗

— Jean-Marc Ayrault

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As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. ↗

— Catharine Beecher

#common #common sense #contradict #dogmas #increased

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. ↗

— Clarence Day

#creeds #discovery #dogma #religion #truth

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#beat #dogma #stigma #will

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. ↗

— Hypatia

#dogmatic #fallacious #final #formal #must

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#amy #being #chasing #couple #dogma

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous? ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#dogma #humanism #liberal #lifetime #me