#ogres

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

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#been #disapproval #factor #important #important factor

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#crime #going #happy #lawyer #progress

I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually. ↗

— Eric Holder

#consistent #consistently #desire #despite #enforcement

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#important #mind #more #progress #than

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#argument #discussion #progress #should #victory

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#change #could #indeed #industrial #instrument

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. ↗

— Carl Jung

#case #climb #consisted #could #down

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. ↗

— Leon Kass

#benefits #biomedical #clear #hazards #less

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#bleached #desert #discarded #eternal #eternal life