Pythagoras quote: “Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.”

“The divine is God's concern; the human, man's.”

Max Stirner book The Ego and Its Own

Cambridge 1995, p. 7
The Ego and Its Own (1844)
Context: The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine, and it is not a general one, but is — unique, as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

“True is the word of the Lord which declares that no man possessing love for the world can acquire the love of God, nor can any who has communion with the world have communion with God, nor can any who has concern for the world have concern for God.”

Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) Eastern Orthodox saint

Source: The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p. 428

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.”

Henry Adams book The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Source: The Education of Henry Adams

“Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure…”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

“I once read that there's nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that's lasted too long. I've also heard that God is eternal.”

Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer

Reflections

“It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.”

Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) American art historian

As quoted in John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

“Dogma and law are two different things, and I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different. And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”

Amy Coney Barrett (1972) American judge

Dianne Feinstein in September 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/the-dogma-of-dianne-feinstein.html
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“Dogma and law are two different things, and I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different. And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.”

Dianne Feinstein (1933) American politician

September 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/the-dogma-of-dianne-feinstein.html to Amy Coney Barrett

“To whom it may concern: the present writer, at any rate, is neither a Hindu nor a nationalist.”

Koenraad Elst (1959) orientalist, writer

Source: 2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)

“Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.”

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