Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.
It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
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