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.
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
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.
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.
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
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.
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.
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left
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.
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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.
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.
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.