“ The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy — when properly aged. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
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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 who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. ”
- Giordano Bruno- Copy
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“ Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
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“ A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin? to say that you are weak, or others are weak. ”
- Swami Vivekananda- Copy
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“ It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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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 am not bound by the opinions of men. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
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“ There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense; for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads. ”
- William Edelen- Copy
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“ There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred… ”
- Robert Menzies- Copy
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“ A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believes things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy… ”
- Herbert Read- Copy
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“ When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages… ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
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