There is no orthodoxy
There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right. G. M. Trevelyan
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There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right. G. M. Trevelyan
When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’. Eric Metaxas
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn’t know it’s dead. Elbert Hubbard
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. Elbert Hubbard
In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing – the flimsy, filmy elusiveness – is supremely characteristic … Read more
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual… cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and … Read more
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. Edward Abbey
The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next. Edith Hamilton
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. Edgar Quinet
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the ‘ruling class’. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, … Read more