Quotes by Doctrine A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it. George F. Kennan doctrineprinciplesmistake Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears. George Henry Lewes doctrinehistoricalspirit The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief George Henry Lewes doctrineagedesire I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is. George Voinovich doctrinefairness The most dangerous of all false doctrines is the one seasoned with a little truth. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. George Washington doctrinelittlesworld Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes . . . The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible. If the theory of relativity had also been necessary for salvation, it would have been revealed to Saint Paul or to Moses. Georges Lemaitre doctrinesaintdoe It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God. George Whitefield doctrineholinesschristianity The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. Georgia Harkness doctrineatheismsin Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur. Georgius Agricola fluxbloodydoctrine [Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends. Georges Bataille doctrinereturnmean The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory. George MacDonald doctrineteachingmean By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship. George Orwell doctrineleaderhatred All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death. George Santayana doctrinetimemen So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind. George Washington masonicdoctrineprinciples Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. George Orwell doctrineinstancepersons Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since. George Bernard Shaw doctrineheavenjesus None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine... I think I understand them thoroughly. Gordon B. Hinckley doctrineworrythinking Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine. Gregory of Nazianzus doctrinesavingworship It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness. Gilbert K. Chesterton doctrineselfishnesspassion In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it. Gilbert K. Chesterton doctrinedestinymen«4567891011121314»
