#heresies

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

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

— H. G. Wells

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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. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Thomas Huxley

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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy. ↗

— Tertullian

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