". . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . ."
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"Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery."
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"My karma just ran over my dogma."
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"All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration."
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"Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed."
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"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible."
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"Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce."
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"Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency."
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"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."
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"As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry."
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"The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes."
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"I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas."
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"Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others."
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"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
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"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."
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"Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion."
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"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."
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"...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts."
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"Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for."
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"I have not the most definite designs on the future."
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