“Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.”

— G. K. Chesterton

Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies ( p. 43 http://books.google.com/books?id=mKs-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Dogma+does+not+mean+the+absence+of+thought+but+the+end+of+thought%22&pg=PA43#v=onepage) <br class="br">The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

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G. K. Chesterton229

English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian

Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954)

“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be.”

Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science

La pensée ne doit jamais se soumettre, ni à un dogme, ni à un parti, ni à une passion, ni à un intérêt, ni à une idée préconçue, ni à quoi que ce soit, si ce n'est aux faits eux-mêmes, parce que, pour elle, se soumettre, ce serait cesser d'être.
Speech, University of Brussels (19 November 1909), during the festival for the 75th anniversary of the university's foundation; published in Œuvres de Henri Poincaré (1956), p. 152

“The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.”

Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright

"A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role" in The Observer (29 June 1958)
Context: Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.