Quotes About Dogma

We think all religions are crazy—except our own.

I have observed that religion is not restraining in a moral see. Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Education and science is an anathema for all religion.

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this was my first proper insight into the eternal type of the professional revolutionary who feels himself lifted out of his insignificance by the mere fact of being in opposition and who clings to his dogma for want of resources within himself.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

New truth is old heresy.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

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

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.