Heretic Quotes

114 Heretic quotes by 93 unique authors

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (â€œTomorrowâ€) — Yevgeny Zamyatin
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if… — Cormac McCarthy
In a battle between Â two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic… — Seth Godin
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman… — Pat Conroy
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power."… — Umberto Eco
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is… — Harlan Ellison
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God… — Florence Nightingale
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… — Christopher Hitchens
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics… — Daniel J. Boorstin
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of… — Walter Kaufmann
A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian — Benjamin Franklin
No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinist — Unknown Author
Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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