Dogma Bartleby Quotes

If Bartleby is a new Messiah, he comes not, like Jesus, to redeem what was, but to save what was not. The Tartarus into which Bartleby, the new savior, descends is the deepest level of the Palace of Destinies, that whose sight Leibniz cannot tolerate, the world in which nothing is compossible with anything else, where "nothing exists rather than something. ~ Giorgio Agamben

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma. ~ Jean-Marie Lehn

Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards. ~ Donald L. Hicks

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. ~ E. O. Wilson

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma. ~ George Bernard Shaw

What the denouncer of dogma really means is not that dogma is bad; but rather that dogma is too good to be true. That ~ G.K. Chesterton

Bartleby is never happy, but he never can be, you know. Life in general offends him. Happiness is something that happens to other people, because life happens to Bartleby. It happens to him frequently and unwarrantedly, and every time he is forced to suffer it, he is always disappointed. ~ Michelle Franklin

Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe. ~ Milton Sanford Mayer

It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it. ~ Antonia White

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in itself a rejection of the world which is said to be rejecting you. It is a way of saying, like Bartleby, 'I prefer not to' to every offer and every possibility, which is a condition no amount of social engineering will cure. ~ Al Alvarez

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin. ~ Thales

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake. ~ Gloria Steinem

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. ~ Anais Nin

Every dogma has its day. ~ Anthony Burgess

Every dogma must have its day. ~ Carolyn Wells

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge. ~ Leo Strauss

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it. ~ G.K. Chesterton

The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science. ~ Sam Harris

I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society ~ Richard Ramirez

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake. ~ Christopher Hitchens

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy. ~ Steve Maraboli

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it. ~ Learned Hand

I believe that dogma is often evil. ~ Pat Buckley

What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism.

- Rufus, Dogma ~ Kevin Smith

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute. ~ Freeman Dyson

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma. ~ Leonora Speyer

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. ~ Israel Zangwill

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset. ~ Maajid Nawaz

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. ~ Adrienne Rich

Dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism ... ~ Mao Zedong

Walk barefoot on your dogma…
Art is a journey into your existential fairytale. ~ Talismanist Giebra

What if Science is God's way of reminding us that he is greater than the stories and dogma we have confined him to? ~ Steve Maraboli

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate. ~ Sharon Salzberg

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well. ~ Rob Brezsny

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. ~ Francis Arinze

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode. ~ Lincoln Diaz-Balart

In the world of dogma, you become free the day you decide to go to hell. ~ Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma. ~ Rob Bell

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. ~ Aldo Leopold

It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Dogma is a defence against the brain's capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place. ~ Joe Blow

Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects. ~ Michelle Glick

Please clean up after your dogma. ~ Dan Barker

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. ~ Charles Darwin

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. ~ Mary Baker Eddy

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things. ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. ~ Jean Danielou

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma. ~ Benjamin De Casseres

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service. ~ Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

In order for one to discover Divine Truth, one must be willing and able to go beyond the religious dogma that divides, rather than unites, humanity. ~ Jason E. Marshall

One cannot escape dogmas - those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague. ~ Sigrid Undset

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity. ~ Pope Innocent III

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma. ~ Peace Pilgrim

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds. ~ Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Ideology is a mechanism for rejecting facts when the threaten to force a reexamination of cherished dogma. And it invents facts when necessary to the survival of the dogma. ~ Jean-François Revel

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. ~ Harold Lasswell

Don't just conform; ask questions.
Don't just believe if it isn't your truth.
Don't follow dogma; it is blindness.
Just love; don't kill to go to heaven. ~ Debasish Mridha

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

Death is an opportunity to shed all guilt; to step away from the dogma and contrivances of mankind; and to finally be unbound from all hindrances to knowledge. ~ Duane Hewitt

You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. (p. 5) ~ Jonathan Lethem

She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby. ~ Renata Adler

I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love. ~ Rajneesh

Ms. Lessing points to a current dogma: political correctness. "It's a continuation of the old Communist Party. It is! The same words, the same attitudes ... 'the Communist Party has made a decision and this is the line."
At first, she says, political correctness had a good beginning; she remembers saying that the language that we use is sexist, racist and so on. But then, "that became a dogma. Because we love a dogma,you know, we really do. We can never just let things develop easily from an idea, it seems to me there's always a group of fanatics who grasp it and make it a dogma. ~ Doris Lessing

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ~ George Eliot

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway. ~ Steve Maraboli

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. ~ Albert Einstein

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong. ~ Xavier Dolan

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. ~ Bertrand Russell

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't. ~ Rosie O'Donnell

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught. ~ Sydney J. Harris

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. ~ John Henry Newman

The death of dogma is the birth of morality. ~ Immanuel Kant

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma. ~ Swami Vivekananda

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.' ~ Neale Donald Walsch

I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to. ~ Frederick Buechner

Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought
but refused to replace one dogma with another. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite. ~ Yehudi Menuhin

If theology means knowledge of God, every woman, serious about her faith, young or old, must be a theologian, must move beyond that 'simple spirit of worship' to the 'complexities of dogma,' dogma being the principles and beliefs forming the core of biblical faith, the only reliable guides for life. ~ Rosalie De Rosset

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. ~ Nhat Hanh

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! ~ Herman Melville

I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die. ~ Michelle Franklin

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ~ Thomas Aquinas

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. ~ Stephen Harper

Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth! ~ Vladimir Lenin

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. ~ Adolf Hitler

Dorothy Sayers challenged the thought of many nay-sayers of her time who claimed that doctrinal preaching led to boredom and a lack of interest. She wrote: Official Christianity, of late years, has been having what is known as bad press. We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine - "dull dogma," as people call it. The fact is the precise opposite. It is the neglect of dogma that makes for dullness. The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.2 ~ Robert Smith Jr.