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He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle a — Edwin Markham
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to star — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero — but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned. — Giordano Bruno
Science is not a democracy. Therefore to try to pass of global warming as real just because "98% of scientists say they — Rebecca McNutt
Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and what, in fact, th — Gore Vidal, Julian
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that — Philip Pullman
Far be it from me to slow down two badass supermodels on a mission, but we have a problem," a male voice said wryly.I co — Rebecca K. Lilley, Breathing Fire
If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank — Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
All people want to belong to some sort of hierarchy. Allow me to explain. The rich want to be the richest; the poor want — C. JoyBell C.
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?""I consider their disdain for her to — Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a compa — G.K. Chesterton
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see. — Giordano Bruno
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age — Thomas Gold
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool — Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of — Yevgeny Zamyatin