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#dogma

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We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. ... if they are mistaken, they will never discover it; they have condemned themselves to perpetual error. Human beings (including myself) sometimes use their beliefs for wish-fulfillment. Too often we believe what we want to be true.


David L. Wolfe


#dogma #self-delusion #wishful-thinking #self-belief

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)


Rollo May


#dogmatism #fundamentalism #courage

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.


Shannon L. Alder


#dogma #religion #self-righteous #stubborn #change

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


#i

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






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