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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. -- Aldous Huxley
Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state. -- Norman Lamm
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy. -- William Warburton
I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. -- Karl Lehmann
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. -- George Orwell
Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence. -- Bertrand Russell
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead. -- Elbert Hubbard
It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy. -- Richard Rohr
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. -- George Orwell
Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. -- Helen Keller
If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again. -- Leah Libresco
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. -- Francis Schaeffer
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other. -- Blaise Pascal
Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be. -- Bertrand Russell
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. -- Edward Abbey
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. -- Abraham Kuyper
Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it. -- George Orwell
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. -- Elbert Hubbard
Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, "? orthodoxy is my doxy, "? heterodoxy is another man's doxy. -- Joseph Priestley
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. -- George Bernard Shaw
Someone who wanted to challenge Orthodoxy would not be able to locate a building to hold a protest march in front of. The faith is too diffused. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
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. -- George Orwell
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity. -- Chinua Achebe
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. -- George Orwell
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. -- Thomas Huxley
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios. -- Simon Schama
Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy. -- Godfried Danneels
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. -- Rowan Atkinson
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. -- Juan Williams
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly. -- Troy Polamalu
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers. -- Leo Tolstoy
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers." -- Leo Tolstoy
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. -- Laurence Housman
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault. -- George Ayittey
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed. -- Richard John Neuhaus
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy. -- William Weld
In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy. -- Peter Kreeft
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. -- George Orwell
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. -- Edgar Quinet
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste. -- Friedrich Schiller
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love. -- Billy Graham
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear. -- N. T. Wright
The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class. -- Jonathan Kozol
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades. -- Martin Filler
An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence. -- Octavio Paz
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.' -- James Fenton
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy. -- Jesse Jackson
I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate. -- Ben Bernanke
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. -- Jim Hightower
It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien. -- Charlie Pierce
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington. -- Stephen Kinzer
Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does. -- Julien Green
The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next. -- Edith Hamilton
Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding. -- Michael Atherton
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines. -- Irvin D. Yalom
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left -- Peter Kreeft
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. -- Francis Schaeffer
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance. -- Desiderius Erasmus
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. -- Brian D. McLaren
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. -- Mark Twain
A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible. -- Bassam Tibi
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged. -- Howard Gardner
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap. -- Eric Hoffer
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. -- David Hare
Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal. -- David Brooks
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something. -- Antonin Scalia
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape." -- Christopher Hitchens
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. -- Christopher Hitchens
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. -- Jeffrey Tucker
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. -- Andre Gide
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized. -- Helen Foster Snow
(About changing faith) At our best, Christians embrace it, leaving enough space within orthodoxy for God to surprise us every now and then. -- Rachel Held Evans
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together. -- Alister E. McGrath
I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure. -- Shepard Fairey
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts. -- George Orwell
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. -- George Orwell
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them. -- Gertrude Atherton
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards. -- Paul Russo
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right. -- G. M. Trevelyan
After the evil spirit of a narrow Scholastic orthodoxy has been driven out, in the end seven much more wicked spirits return in its place. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength. -- Chuck Todd
The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown. -- Jonathan Meades
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves. -- James Black
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. -- George Orwell
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations. -- Helen Keller
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. -- Juan Williams
Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar. -- Rajneesh
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. -- Andre Gide
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests. -- Gregg Easterbrook
Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love. -- William Barclay
I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?" -- Lucas Neff
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. -- Sheri S. Tepper
No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors. -- Ludwig von Mises
On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms. -- David Papineau
But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference. -- Karl Rahner
Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin. -- Evan Meekins
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment. -- George Orwell
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 -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality. -- Eric Hoffer
A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy. -- Joan Robinson
I don't think we've got the gospel right yet.I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy. -- Brian D. McLaren
Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief. -- Jesse Ventura
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live. -- Ruth Hubbard
A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. -- John Frame
The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth. -- David Hare
If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world. -- Alan Wolfe

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