Alive Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

— Jacques Barzun

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves;…

— Saint Augustine

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation…

— Sun Myung Moon

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

— Saint Augustine

“We owe a wealth of gratitude to the many heretics that have gone before us, those that had thought independently, and courageously, and dared…

— Beth Sage Owens

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

— G. M. Trevelyan

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of…

— Florence Nightingale

I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this…

— Eusebius