Heretic Quotes

• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Flame
  • Forests

• Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ends
  • Revolutionary
  • Oppressor

• A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

  

  William Cowper
  • Dear
  • Disagree
  • Fellows

• The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • World
  • Christ
  • Heretic

• Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Believe
  • Atheist
  • Miracles

• I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition!

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Philosopher
  • Heretic
  • Tribunal

• I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

  

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Firsts

• To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - Thomas More burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Proud
  • Causes
  • Burning

• I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Teaching

• In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Behinds
  • Heretic

• He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.

  

  Tertullian
  • Reason
  • Christian
  • Discussion

• That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

  

  Aubrey Menen
  • Think
  • Oneself
  • Heretic

• It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fire
  • Atheism
  • Heretic