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. (“Tomorrow”)

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to…

— Robert Southey

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

“Christianity of this simple, vital sort is the world's salvation. Criticised by enemies and caricatured by friends; fossilised in the minds of the aged,…

— William De Witt Hyde

The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of…

— Edward Kasner

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the…

— Albert Einstein

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

— George Bernard Shaw

In a dead religion there are no more heresies.

— Andre Suares

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

— Jane Addams

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave…

— Oscar Wilde

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

A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so…

— Frederic Farrar