Heretic Quotes

114 Heretic quotes by 93 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. — Daniel J. Boorstin
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
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
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
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
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores — Patrick Rothfuss
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
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
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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