Heresies Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.