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Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.

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Joseph CampbellMythology and the Individual

What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Da

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to ...

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I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in trans...

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But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the...

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...'unless you convert to Orthodoxy, you too will follow your Pope down that valley, through the sco...

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William Dalrymple (historian)From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

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Christopher HitchensFor the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

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Edward AbbeyA Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the f...

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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like...

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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

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Irvin D. YalomLove's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument ...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies