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“Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.”

“I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.”

Years Firsts Different Philosophy Fields Research Years Ago Remembrance Interrupted Slumber Different Directions Dogmatic Hume

Book:Theoretical Philosophy after 1781

Source: Theoretical Philosophy after 1781

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.”

Ifs Said Different Philosophy Able Wonder Break Strange Prejudice Lays Familiar Fancy Native Plato Slumber Dogmatic Plato And Aristotle

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.”

World Mean Philosophy Care Religious Tradition Don't Care Sensual Dogmatic Tantra Religious Traditions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.”

Source: The Problems of Philosophy

“The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.”

Philosophy Belief Religious Critical Lifestyle Dogmatic

Author:Mike Scheidt

“The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and amulets, we have nothing to do. The theoretical is divided into the lineal and dogmatic. The dogmatic is nothing more than the summary of the metaphysical doctrine taught by the Cabalist doctors. It is, in other words, the system of the Jewish philosophy.”

Kind Two Philosophy Taught Doctors Jew Practicals Doctrine Engaged Divided Construction Metaphysical Theoretical Dogmatic Summary Talismans Cabal Amulets

Author:Albert Mackey