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Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.
In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.
a man may be very dogmatic in his opposition to dogma. Such
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
Religion is a smile on a dog.
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
The Way of the Ascetics
Who rules our symbols, rules us.
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.
I AM GOD
DOGMA I
When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.
We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.
I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.
I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.
Dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.
Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest
beginning, middle, and end
isnothing but dreams and smoke.
But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma ... and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes.
Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind.
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the
state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion,
of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the
fashionable idols!
I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.
Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached
We stand at a crossroads. Idolatry looms. Traditional values in jeopardy. Truth under siege and virtue abandoned.
Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.
What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.
A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
Failure and disillusionment are realities, but ideologies are made of dreams. And dreams, it would seem, do not fade easily.
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Ideology-the permission to hate.
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.
When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested they are, they only become the more ridiculous and the more odious.
The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.
Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetition
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.
Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.
The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.
By which the devil uses our philosophies to turn our whole nature inside out, and eviscerate all our capacities for good, turning them against ourselves. All
That no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.
Dogmas may fly out at the window but congregations do not come in at the door.
Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists
I'm not dogmatic.
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.
It might be religion, but it still has to make sense.
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
Since long ago all peoples have recognized that the world, apart from its physical meaning, also has a moral one. Yet everywhere the matter has only come to a vague consciousness, which, as it sought expression, clothed itself in all sorts of images and myths. There are religions.
The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can't cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics.
Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
The worldly life means a puzzle of 'wrong beliefs'.
He who strays from tradition becomes a
sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who remains in tradition is its
slave. Destruction follows in any case.
If tensions, conflicts and irresolvable dilemmas are the spice of every culture, a human being who belongs to any particular culture must hold contradictory beliefs and be riven by incompatible values.
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words ... Be not the slave of Words ...
Man's best friend is his dogma.
In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.
As noble (and often ignoble) creatures of the universe, the people of the world must acknowledge the nakedness of long held beliefs and be open to constructive criticism. Even if the criticism comes from within or without the structures held sacrosanct.
The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable ...
Dogmatists are strange hyenas. They feed on the carrion of those thoughts they killed themselves.
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
What we live by we die by.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.