Heretic Quotes
114 Heretic quotes by 93 unique authors
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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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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I…
— Martin Luther
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It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be…
— Thabo Mbeki
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I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I…
— Steven Pinker
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The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in…
— Steven Pinker
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal…
— Ezra Pound
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
— George Bernard Shaw
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars…
— John Shelby Spong
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
— Charles Spurgeon
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He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We…
— Edwin Markham
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Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg…
— Tom Holt
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No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the…
— Thomas Pynchon
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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
— Meister Eckhart
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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
— Patrick Rothfuss
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The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's…
— Albert Einstein
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But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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