The heresy of heresies was common sense.
What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
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
We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?
An opinion which is ... to establish a principle never before recognized, should be expressed in plain and explicit terms.
Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
