Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget."
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them"
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it."
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"A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well."
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"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
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"Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
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"There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands."
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"At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts."
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"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
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"The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."
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"Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be."
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"I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal."
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"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."
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"Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead."
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"Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other."
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"The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses."
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"When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy."
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"The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy."
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"I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left."
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"Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence."
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"Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly."
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"The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong"
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"Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does."
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