Fanatic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure.
Orthodox Quotes
How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? 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.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
I shall say briefly that I am a realist, and above all interested in the living truth of the human face… I do not believe in absolutes and systems. I love freedom more than anything… Everything human’s dear to me. Slavophilism is alien, as is every orthodoxy.
Othodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.
Orthodox, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks.
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… The orthodox Church never took the tame course or accepted the conventions; the […]
Not only does “orthodox” no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.
The business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
