Freedom Quote by Bertrand Russell

“In theory it is still possible to be an orthodox religious believer without being intellectually crippled in the process.”

— George Orwell

“I plan to make the case that we need to move beyond religion if we want to continue the kind of remarkable intellectual and…

— Alan Jeskin

“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel…

— Richard M. Rorty

the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

— Robert Musil

“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with…

— Anonymous

“Orthodoxy is life. If we don’t live Orthodoxy, we simply are not Orthodox, no matter what formal beliefs we might hold.”

— Seraphim Rose. Leaving the Orthodox Worldview

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“If everybody who had brains and doubts left Orthodoxy, we would be in a great deal of trouble.”

— Chaim Potok

“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress. The…

— Joseph Lewis

“Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.”

— Massimo Pigliucci

“At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas, which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.…

— Anonymous

“if the belief or practice is ancient, foreign, and preferably Eastern, it has immediate authority and wisdom.”

— Karen Stollznow