#dogmatism

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #religion

Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#religion #religion

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ethics #nietzsche #ethics

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#does #dogmatism #foolishness #idealism #ignorance

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

— Ronald Fisher

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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#dogmatism #comfort

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. ↗

— William Osler

#greater #ignorance

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#both #certain #certainty #dissipate #dogmatism

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) ↗

— Rollo May

#dogmatism #fundamentalism #courage