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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
The tolerance of the skeptic ... accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the "dogmatist."
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.
Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.
When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as the latter would end in a total anarchy of the state, the former would end in a worthless religious nihilism.
It's a sick philosophy that begrudges people their illusions.
I don't like dogmas; i don't want to be kept in a box
I'm not dogmatic.
Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.
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.
Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others.
Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter were determined by the laws of dynamics and could not therefore be influenced by human wills.
Ideology is the product of a kind of mad logic.
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
A mere society form of Atheism.
To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy
Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier.
Today, religious fanatics and scientific rejectionists flourish under the protective wing of postmodernism, claiming that theirs is just one more valid viewpoint - a form of mental aikido (using the opponent's strength against him).
One must overcome history by dogma.
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.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
Religion is a smile on a dog.
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense
The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism ... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling.
Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.
It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.
It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
Prejudice is a belief born from a shortcut to thinking
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
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.
Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.
scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
One [dogma] is that violence is caused by a deficit of morality and justice. On the contrary, violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators.
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,
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.
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
Unsuspecting people make a fatal mistake when they give their allegiance to a system of thought by focusing on its benefits while they ignore its systemic contradictions.
Dogmas don't have to be entirely logical, as long as they work.
When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.
Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.
Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane [sic], seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails.
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.
When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.
Ideologies are mental prisons that produce blindness.
armed with the discourse of counter-ideology.
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.
Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
Insecurity can be solved the hard way or the easy way - and by giving people the easy option, dogmatic tribes remove the pressure to do the hard work of evolving into a more independent person with a more internally-defined identity.
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
Ideology makes people stupid.
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
We need some heterodoxy in social science in order for them to avoid death by suffocation under dogmatism.
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.
Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
Intolerance is a failed master of non-existent reason.
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
A dog is a liberal ... He wants to please everybody.
Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.
Embedded in every tool is an ideological bias, a predisposition to construct the world as one thing rather than another, to value one thing over another, to amplify one sense or skill or attitude more loudly than another.
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.