Heterodoxy Quotes

“A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.”
― Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

“The contrarian dogma is simple and easy to understand: “Whatever is popular is wrong,” as Oscar Wilde proclaimed at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. As a conclusion, this statement is questionable. As a mindset, it’s not bad.”
― Windsor Mann, The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

“At holde Stand udi slige Fristelser er en Qvalitet, som nærmer sig til Heroismum; hvorudover de, som udi store Smerter og Gienvordigheder lade Modet falde, kand heller ansees, som skrøbelige og ufuldkomne end som rebelske Undersaatter, der forskylde ævig Straf, og der have giort sig uværdige til all Naade. Et er ey at kunde undskylde en Gierning, et andet er derfore at dictere ævig Straf.”
― Ludvig Holberg, Epistler

“He's always in high spirit for charity but has no sympathy for heterodoxy.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“He's always in high spirits for charity and yet no sympathy for heterodoxy.”
― Et Imperatrix Noctem

“To the Catholic, including the quasi-Catholic and twice-a-year Catholic, all manner of actual and heterodox and lapsed Catholics, a church service is really about ritual.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“A adesão de um estilo discursivo e não matemático teria levado à formação de 'escolas de desenvolvimento construídas sobre metáforas sugestivas, particularismo institucional, raciocínio interdisciplinar e uma postura relaxada no tocante à consistência interna. O resultado foram alguns belos escritos, alguns insights inspiradores e (na minha opinião) um beco sem saída intelectual.”
― Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira, Desenvolvimento Econômico: Uma Perspectiva Brasileira