D Quotes
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“Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.”
“Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.”
Source: Collected Works
“Dogma not divine, myth not holy.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Dogma not Divine, Myth not Holy (Sonnet 2430)
What kind of a moron demands his devotee
to slaughter his son just to prove his loyalty!
What kind of an alcoholic father
sends his son to be tortured and nailed
on a cross just to prove how much he cares!
What kind of a pervert rescues his wife
from her abductor only to abandon her,
just so his reputation as the ideal king
wouldn't be tarnished by a violated woman!
Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness,
nor with the actual creator of the cosmos,
even if there is such a thing, at most they
reflect the mindset and morality of their time.
I never had any interest
in making a case for or against god,
my struggle is far more real,
against dogma disguised as divine.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Dogma not only results in the form of gross, zealous behavior such as the killing of ethnic minorities as part of a cultural cleansing, it is substantiated by warped statements of certainties that corrupt the mind and make you a slave to further the agenda the organization that initiated it.”
“Dogma of ethnicity is the ruin of civilization.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.”
“Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.”
“Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.”
“Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.”
“Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.”
Source: Letters to the press: the unknown Conan Doyle
“Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.”
Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free
“Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and the feeling of being 'unworthy'. This has encouraged people to hand over their right to think and feel to a Bible and a priest because they have not had the confidence or self-belief to realize that they have a right, and an infinite gift, to make their own decisions”
Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free
“Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.”
“Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law was and is to protect the past and present status of society and, by its very essence, must be very conservative, if not reactionary. Theology and law are both of them static by their nature.
Philosophy, law and ethics, to be effective in a dynamic world must be dynamic; they must be made vital enough to keep pace with the progress of life and science. In recent civilization ethics, because controlled by theology and law, which are static, could not duly influence the dynamic, revolutionary progress of technic and the steadily changing conditions of life; and so we witness a tremendous downfall of morals in politics and business. Life progresses faster than our ideas, and so medieval ideas, methods and judgments are constantly applied to the conditions and problems of modern life. This discrepancy between facts and ideas is greatly responsible for the dividing of modern society into different warring classes, which do not understand each other. Medieval legalism and medieval morals- the basis of the old social structure-being by their nature conservative, reactionary, opposed to change, and thus becoming more and more unable to support the mighty social burden of the modern world, must be adjudged responsible in a large measure for the circumstances which made the World War inevitable.”
Source: Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering
“Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.”
“Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.”
“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists”
“Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.”
“Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.”
Source: Modes of Thought
“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”
“Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)”
“Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.”
“Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.”
Source: The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
“Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.”
“Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.”
Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye
“dogs and angels are not very far apart”
“Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.”
Source: When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me
“Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.”
“Dogs and other animals we bring into our homes serve as one of our most important links to Mother Nature. We may not think about it consciously, but they are our lifelines to a part of ourselves that we are at the brink of losing altogether.”
“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”
“Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach by example. That is all that's required of them.”
Source: A Riley Bloom Novel: Radiance
“Dogs are a habit, I think.”
“Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.”
“Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.”
“Dogs are angels full of poop.”
Source: Pet Humor!
“Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.”
“Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?"”
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
“Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can."
--from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm”
Source: The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me
“Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have sex. Little of this is what we want them to do, of course. We ask them to sit, stay, smell peasant, practice abstinence, and be accommodating.”
“Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?”
“Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.”
Source: Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“Dogs are easier to love than people; they're certainly more dependable. Once they love you, that's it. A true friend in life is a dog.”
“Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.”
“Dogs are experts at this, letting us be alone without being lonely. Letting us find a way to be content with ourselves.”
Source: Dog Crazy
“Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.”
Source: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs