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2 Andrew Dickson White Quotes

Andrew Dickson White points out the danger of fanaticism in a stark, no-nonsense way, useful for anyone wary of extreme beliefs.

Andrew Dickson White quotes

  1. As a rule, when there arises a thinker as great in theology as Kepler in science, the whole mass of his conclusions ripens into a dogma. His disciples labour not to test it, but to establish it; and while, in the Catholic Church, it becomes a dogma to be believed or disbelieved under the penalty of damnation, it becomes in the Protestant Church the basis for one more sect.

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  2. The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

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