#dogma

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#metaphysics #philosophy #religion #religion

Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn’t there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?” The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said: “There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. ↗

— Felix Adler

#creed #dogma #every #experience #inception

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#admit #another #class #country #dogma

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#any #becomes #catholic #dogma #faith

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. ↗

— Francis Arinze

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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

#created #dogma #ever #fantastic #historical

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ↗

— Franz Boas

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

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