Common Quote by George Orwell Download Open image “The heresy of heresies was common sense.” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common sense Heresy
“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion. — Andre Suares Copy Share Image
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
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