90 Quotes About Heresy
- Author Umberto Eco
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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
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- Author Voltaire
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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- Author Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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- Author André Bjerke
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This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt it, something else was raised: The witch fires.
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- Author Chad A. Ripperger
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We often see this today: people expect the liturgy to be conformed to their emotional states rather than they conforming themselves to an objective cult, which conforms itself to God.
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- Author Gore Vidal
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Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, they do believe, as demonstrated by their actions. A religion of brotherhood and mildness which daily murders those who disagree with its doctrines can only be thought hypocrite, or worse.
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- Author James Joyce
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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- Author Aaron Dembski-Bowden
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Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn.""That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.
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- Author S.J. Parris
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I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.
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