heresies quotes

Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them.

- Gerald Brenan
  Thoughts in a Dry Season.

For indeed heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in one place, they rise up again in another.

- SirThomas Browne
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 6.

  It isthe customary fate of new truthsto begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

-T(homas) H(enry) Huxley
  Science and Culture and Other Essays,'The Coming of  Age of the Origin of the Species'.

The most interesting ideas are heresies.

- Susan Sontag
  Interview in Salmagundi, Fall^Winter.

Of such deep learning little had he need, Ne yet of Latin, ne of Greek that breed Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From when arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies.

- Edmund Spenser
Prosopopoia, l.385^9.