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“A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.”

Source: Kindness, Clarity, and Insight

“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)”

Wells Kind Persons Facts Together Political Artist Moral Creative Economic Anxiety All Kinds Threatened Destroyers Creative Person Dogmatism Creative Freedom

Author:Rollo May

“He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.”

Thinking Men Wells Heart Long Said Ends Brain Doubt Remembered No Doubt Uncles Solemn Dogmatism

Book:Busman's Honeymoon

Source: Busman's Honeymoon

“Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.”

“Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.”

“Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?”

Serious Stupidity Graves Ass Resolute Dogmatism Obstinacy

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.”

Should Said Sometimes Lying Liberty Practice Expression Remedy Toleration Dogmatism

Author:Joyce Cary

“Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.”

“I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.”

Giving Trying Art Answers Doubt Authority Absolutes Doctrine Celebrate Ideology Uncertainty Interpretation Provoking Parasites Dogmatism Incorporating

Author:Sherrie Levine

“Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.”

States Enough Imagination Effort Particular Balance Normal Mindfulness Opposites Intention Silent Peaceful Analysis Arrogance Hypocrisy Dogmatism

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn heretics at the stake. Even a fundamentalist Iranian Muslim would flinch if he came face to face with a western liberal's rigid dogmatism. I imagine that even a Saudi Arabian Islamic cleric would take one look at how American left wingers react when anyone deviates ever so slightly from their established orthodoxy, and say to himself, 'man, these people REALLY need to chill.”

“Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.”

Force Revolution Tradition Revolutionary Dogmatic Dogmatism

Author:Peter Brook

“Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.”

Two Mankind Terrible Disease Anxiety Skepticism Relieved Dogmatism

Author:Sextus Empiricus

“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”

Truth Running Lying Movement Grew Concepts Wave Impression Ships Soil Persist Dogmatism

Author:Dmitri Volkogonov

“In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.”

Has Beens Found Natural Subjects Research Remedy Dogmatism

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.”

People World Said Matter Seems Order Belief Worst Serious Absolutes Agree Looking Back They Said Inconsistent Dogmatism Worst Times

Book:The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.”

World Possibility Dogmatism

Author:Albert Einstein

“Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.”

Thinking Mean Form Religious Taken Embrace Western Theology Irrationality Dogmatism Scholasticism

Book:How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity

Source: How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity

“In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.”

“But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.”

“...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.”

Self Age Dark Mankind Periods Medical Satisfied Delusion Cherish Dark Ages Finality Dogmatism

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.”

“Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.”

Source: Nature: Addresses, and Lectures

“How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!”

People Passion Fashion Strange Dogmatism

Book:Tartuffe and Other Plays

Source: Tartuffe and Other Plays

“No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.”

Men Should Dies Subjects Burden Proof Theology Opposition Throwing Invincible Dogmatism Burden Of Proof

Author:Elbert Hubbard