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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the…
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his…
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they…
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
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What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true…
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute…
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a…
— Ben Jonson
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Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab…
— Unknown Author
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained;…
— Saint Augustine
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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
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become…
— George Orwell
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy
— Tertullian
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Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue.…
— Zhuangzi
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For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do…
— William Shakespeare
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