A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

quote by Eric Hoffer
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death.

quote by Elie Wiesel
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Paulina: It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.

line from The Winter's Tale, Act II, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1610)
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

quote by Albert Camus
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

quote by Henry David Thoreau
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

quote by Learned Hand
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

quote by Galileo Galilei
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

quote by Alexander Hamilton
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The first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.

Traditional proverbs
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

quote by James Joyce
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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

quote by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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With the first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.

Italian proverbs
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Renegade

He’s a heretic to religion
Rebels against the system
Seeks justice, with derision
Finds purity in asceticism

poem by Ray Lucero
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The Heretic Prays

the heretic kneels
by the old willow tree
alone in the darkness

with life....

and prays....
with no need for salvation,
redemption, or change....

no thought of self,
of need and want,
he just lets go...

and prays....

nameless, part of all....
formless, evolving forms.....
from soul to spirit....

[...] Read more

poem by Eric Cockrell
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

quote by George Santayana
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

quote by Randall Terry
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It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

quote by Thabo Mbeki
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If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

quote by Charles Spurgeon
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The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

quote by Julius Wellhausen
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Old Heretic!

just an old heretic,
with
...a
.....shovel,
........an axe,
....a pot of coffee,

and a smile!

tell me what
....you need, brother!

poem by Eric Cockrell
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