Best Heresy Lines
206 Heresy quotes by 146 unique authors
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Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind…
— Susan Sontag
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In a dead religion there are no more heresies.
— Andre Suares
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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— Saint Augustine
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For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and…
— Galileo Galilei
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Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers,…
— Arthur Koestler
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There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.
— Rumi
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There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole…
— John Stuart Mill
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And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of…
— Christopher Columbus
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There is a popular heresy abroad today which states that if a little is good, more is better. Following this dictum creates a life which…
— Robert A. Johnson
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Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
— Galileo Galilei
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Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
— Che Guevara
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor…
— Aleister Crowley
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured…
— Alexander Hamilton
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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
— Thomas Hobbes
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
— Thomas Huxley
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
— James Joyce
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
— Helen Keller
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
— Malcolm X
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You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.
— Charles Manson
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