Orthodoxy Quotes - Page 8

• Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

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• 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

  Pensamiento, Ideas, Personas

  George Orwell Peter Hobley Davison (2001). "Orwell y la política: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell", Penguin Modern Classics

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• Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sides, May, Opinion

  Blaise Pascal (1731). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French”, p.183

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• I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

  Harriet Martineau

  Atheism, Superstitions, Next

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.568, Broadview Press

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• In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

  Peter Kreeft

  Age, Rebellion, Left

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.189, Ignatius Press

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• When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

  Eric Metaxas

  Lying, Government, Cynical

  "Raising Good Men". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.

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• La ortodoxia es idolatría si significa sostener las "opiniones correctas sobre Dios" -el "fundamentalismo" es el ejemplo más extremo y destacado de tal idolatría-, pero no si significa sostener la fe de la manera correcta, es decir, no sostenerla en absoluto, sino ser sostenido por Dios, en el amor y el servicio. La teología es idolatría si significa lo que decimos de Dios en lugar de dejarnos interpelar por lo que Dios tiene que decirnos. La fe es idolátrica si es rígidamente segura de sí misma, pero no si se suaviza en las aguas de la "duda".

  John D. Caputo

  Medio, Yo, Agua

  John D. Caputo (2007). "¿Qué deconstruiría Jesús? (La Iglesia y la cultura posmoderna): The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church", p.131, Baker Academic

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• En un momento dado, existe una especie de ortodoxia omnipresente, un acuerdo general tácito de no discutir hechos importantes e incómodos.

  George Orwell

  Agreement, Facts, Moments

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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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Average, Want, Take Me

  "Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Michael Cunningham about genres, gender, and broadening fiction". Interview with Michael Cunningham, electricliterature.com. April 1, 2016.

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• 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

  Creativity, Fire, Sparks

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.100, Heinemann

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• [Corresponde a los republicanos sacar a la luz las burocracias y criticar las ortodoxias, preguntar por qué se siguen expidiendo visados para viajar a Estados Unidos en África Occidental y por qué se despliegan fuerzas militares estadounidenses allí sin un plan viable ni un propósito inteligible, por qué las prioridades de gasto de los CDC están tan sesgadas y la gestión de los CDC es tan débil, y por qué aquí en casa no se utilizan los poderes policiales rutinarios y no se aplican las medidas de salud pública rutinarias.

  William Kristol

  Militar, Hogar, Prioridades

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• 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

  Religious, Ethnicity, Ideas

  Jesse Ventura (2008). "No empieces la revolución sin mí: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings", Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated

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• Estoy convencido de que siempre que exageramos o demonizamos, simplificamos o exageramos nuestros argumentos, perdemos. Siempre que simplificamos el debate político, perdemos. Porque es precisamente la búsqueda de la pureza ideológica, la rígida ortodoxia y la pura previsibilidad de nuestro debate político actual lo que nos impide encontrar nuevas formas de afrontar los retos a los que nos enfrentamos.

  Barack Obama

  Retos,Políticos, Tontos

  Barack Obama (2006). "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream", p.31, Crown

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• Cada hecho de la ciencia fue una vez condenado. Cada invento se consideraba imposible. Cada descubrimiento era un choque nervioso para alguna ortodoxia. Cada innovación artística era denunciada como fraude y locura. Todo el entramado de la cultura y el "progreso", todo lo que en la Tierra está hecho por el hombre y no nos ha sido dado por la naturaleza, es la manifestación concreta de la negativa de algún hombre a doblegarse ante la Autoridad.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

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• The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Religioso, Actitud, Creer

  "Nihilism On A Religious Soil". Short story by Nikolai Berdyaev, May 6, 1907.

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• The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take care of their Bibles, that they be not mutilated or curtailed by lawless criticism; they must take care of their theology, that it be not perverted by false philosophy; and they must take care of their pulpits, that they be not occupied by heretical, unspiritual, or incompetent ministers.

  John Angell James

  Philosophy, Views, Age

  John Angell James (1848). “An Earnest Ministry the Want of the Times”, p.16

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• The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

  Edith Hamilton

  Generaciones, Siguiente

  Edith Hamilton (1987). "The Greek way ; The Roman way", Random House Value Pub.

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• The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.

  Helen Foster Nieve

  War, Artist, Government

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• Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

  Helen Foster Nieve

  Freedom, Thinking, Expression

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Expression, Imagination

  Salman Rushdie (1990). "De buena fe", Penguin (No clásicos)

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• Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

  Julien Green

  Doe, Belief, Bigots

  "Journal" by Julien Green, July 23, 1945.

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• The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.

  Ed Crane

  Religious, Class, People

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• Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

  Juan Wesley

  Religion, May, Opinion

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• Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lakes, Government, American West

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Atheist, School

  Letter to Charles Kingsley, mathcs.clarku.edu. May 05, 1863.

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