Dogmas Quotes

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. - Alexander Herzen

When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness. - Olympia Brown

The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas. - Ernst Mach

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. - Abraham Lincoln

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Philosophy is concerned with the undermining and questioning of dogmas, whereas religion is all about accepting and supporting them. - Jim Hankinson

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. - Thomas Jefferson

It would be difficult to avoid breathing here in life. It's a contradiction in terms, because no matter what choice you make, it's dramaturgy. Dogma 95 contains a few impossible, paradoxical rules, but the same goes for religious dogmas, too. - Lars Von Trier

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. - Muhammad Iqbal