#heretic

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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