Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
See Nancy Mitford’s quotation on aristocracy for a similar view: {167778}
Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
There are two kinds of people in the world: the conscious and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Every dogma has its day.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.