Heresies

Meaning

of Heresy

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The desire to rule is the mother of heresies. John Chrysostom

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. Aleister Crowley

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. Alexander Hamilton

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

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

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. Jorge Luis Borges