Dogma

Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.

— Dogma

All teaching is dogmatic. Dogma, indeed, means only "a thing taught," and teaching not dogmatic would cease to be teaching and would become discussion and doubt.

— Dogma

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

— Dogma

Yield not one inch to all the forces which conspire to make you an echo. That is the sin of dogmatism and creeds. Avoid them; they build a fence about the intellect.

— Dogma

Religion does not mean to surrender to dogmas and religious scriptures or conformity to rituals. But my religion constitutes an abiding faith in the perfect values of truth and the ceaseless attempt to realise them in the inner most part of our nature.

— Dogma

Government is a veritable religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its ministers. ... The primary need of man is that his growing reason ... be lost in the national reason so that it may change his individual existence into another, common existence.

— Dogma

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

— Dogma

Yesterday a conversation about divinity and faith suggested to me a great, a stupendous idea to the realization of which I feel capable of dedicating my whole life. This is the idea—the founding of a new religion corresponding to the development of mankind: the religion of Christ, but purged of all dogma and mystery, a practical religion, not promising future bliss but realizing bliss on earth.

— Dogma

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.

— Dogma