Quotes Tagged With :heretics

Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he....

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing....

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

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution,....

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy.....

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended....

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under....

The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated today, "progress"....

I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they....