I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as that would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them. Do not, however mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that has brought upon him the character of heretic.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

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I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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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.

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Progress, this great heresy of decay.

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

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With the Gospel men may become heretics.

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Heresy is the school of pride.

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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

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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.

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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

quote by Helen Keller
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Heresy may be easier kept out than shook off.

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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