Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H.L. MenckenTags: fear happiness definitions attitude orthodoxy puritanism strictness
There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression--and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.
G.K. ChestertonTags: orthodoxy
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
George OrwellTags: orthodoxy
Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.
Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin.
Tags: progress thought brave brain heresy orthodoxy cradle coffin horizon new-world
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.
G.K. ChestertonTags: oscar-wilde sunsets orthodoxy
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.
Seraphim RoseTags: religion nihilism christ athiesm orthodoxy
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.
Seraphim RoseTags: life inspirational choice religion religious orthodoxy
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Francis A. SchaefferTags: compassion bible orthodoxy
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.
John D. CaputoTags: doubt faith theology orthodoxy
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."
[Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952) (dissenting)]
Tags: liberty censorship free-speech freedom-of-speech political orthodoxy
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