Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free.
C. JoyBell C.Tags: freedom inspirational-quotes dogma life-and-living inspirational-life breaking-free attaining-victory spiritual-bondage
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
Edward AbbeyTags: mind heart dogma independent-thought orthodoxy strictness critical-thinking
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
Ellis PetersTags: religion dogma doctrine labels heresy orthodoxy sainthood stigma
Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought--but refused to replace one dogma with another.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTags: dogma
We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating their truth. ... if they are mistaken, they will never discover it; they have condemned themselves to perpetual error. Human beings (including myself) sometimes use their beliefs for wish-fulfillment. Too often we believe what we want to be true.
David L. WolfeTags: belief dogma self-delusion wishful-thinking
Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.
Steve MaraboliTags: god journey religion dogma pay-tools roadway
The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences, in sad and sober privacy behind the scenes, will brew for the intoxication of their subjects.
Aldous HuxleyTags: faith dogma intoxication
Kita umumnya gampang termakan desas-desus karena kita hidup bertahun-tahun tak terlatih untuk menganalisis dan berpikir empiris. Dan berkibarlah sumber pengetahuan kita lewat dogma, desas-desus, dan dukun.
Goenawan MohamadTags: dogma pengetahuan empiris
When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.”
There are truths so evident, so much a part of the peoples’ knowledge, that it is now useless to debate them. One should be a “Marxist” with the same naturalness with which one is a “Newtonian” in physics or a “Pasteurian.” If new facts bring about new concepts, the latter will never take away that portion of truth possessed by those that have come before.
Such is the case, for example, of “Einsteinian” relativity or of Planck’s quantum theory in relation to Newton’s discoveries. They take absolutely nothing away from the greatness of the learned Englishman. Thanks to Newton, physics was able to advance until it achieved new concepts of space. The learned Englishman was the necessary stepping-stone for that.
Obviously, one can point to certain mistakes of Marx, as a thinker and as an investigator of the social doctrines and of the capitalist system in which he lived. We Latin Americans, for example, cannot agree with his interpretation of Bolivar, or with his and Engels’ analysis of the Mexicans, which accepted as fact certain theories of race or nationality that are unacceptable today.
But the great men who discover brilliant truths live on despite their small faults and these faults serve only to show us they were human. That is to say, they were human beings who could make mistakes, even given the high level of consciousness achieved by these giants of human thought.
This is why we recognize the essential truths of Marxism as part of humanity’s body of cultural and scientific knowledge. We accept it with the naturalness of something that requires no further argument.
Tags: science history dogma evolution ideology marxism
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
HypatiaTags: dogma dogmatic-religion
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