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For my name
and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to
foreign nations and the next ages.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
It may be you
fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
-- Giordano Bruno
1548-1600, Italian
Philosopher, Scientist
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
1875-1947, British Occultist
A heresy can
spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
-- Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author,
Philosopher
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The difference
between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy
often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
1911-1978, American
Democratic Politician, Vice President
I shall never
be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to
decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound
by the opinions of men.
-- Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of
the Protestant Reformation
A man may be a
heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because
his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without
knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the
very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
If the
individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth,
or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits
so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before
he can establish his point.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
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