Dogma Quotes - Page 3

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

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.

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.

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Every dogma must have its day.

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.