#dogma

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

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become. ↗

— Mary Roach

#facts #science #spook #experience

The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences, in sad and sober privacy behind the scenes, will brew for the intoxication of their subjects. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#faith #intoxication #faith

All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have always called forth in me the same kind of uneasiness one has when face to face with the regulations displayed under the glaring lights of a prison cell. Even if one had been born in prison and had never seen the stars or seas or woods, one would instinctively know of timeless freedom in unlimited space. My evil star, however, had fated me to be born in times when only the sharply demarcated and precisely calculable where in fashion.... "Of course, I am on the Right, on the Left, in the Centre; I descend from the monkey; I believe only what I see; the universe is going to explode at this or that speed" - we hear such remarks after the first words we exchange, from people whom we would not have expected to introduce themselves as idiots. If one is unfortunate enough to meet them again in five years, everything is different except their authoritative and mostly brutal assuredness. Now they wear a different badge in their buttonhole; and the universe now shrinks at such a speed that your hair stands on end. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #freedom #open-mindedness #politics #freedom

It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions are just the same' as the older dogmaticians did about insisting on particular formulations and interpretations. The dogma that all dogmas are wrong, the monolithic insistence that all monolithic systems are to be rejected, has taken hold of the popular imagination at a level far beyond rational or logical discourse. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#religious-pluralism #secular-dogma #imagination