“Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now! — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Rooting for the Dodgers once would have been heresy within my New York family. — Ed Henry Copy Share Image
To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“In reality, orthodoxy comes into being only after there are choices to be made, with competing, and mutually exclusive, options. Heresy is… — Eric A. Eliason Copy Share Image
But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's always bothered… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in… — Moby Copy Share Image
The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as… — Hubert Reeves Copy Share Image
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy. — Roger Garaudy Copy Share Image
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“To some people independent thought is heresy and critical thought blasphemy” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
