DOGMATISM
Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is anybody else’s doxy who does not agree with
me. 1005.449
It is of no use for a man to say, “I have made up my mind upon certain things,” and
to keep doggedly fighting over those matters, while, at the same time, the whole of
his life is unkind, ungenerous, and unlovable. Yes, by all manner of means be a
martyr if you like; but do not martyr everybody else, for it is very possible to get so
much grit in you, that you become all grit. There are some who have carried firmness
into obstinacy, and determination into bigotry, which is a thing to be shunned. 2291.30
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly
upright. 3381.558