“ Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
- 3.5K
“ All orthodox opinion — that is, today, ''revolutionary'' opinion either of the pure or the impure variety — is anti-man. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble. ”
- Jaroslav Pelikan- Copy
- 1.1K
“ What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. ”
- George Weinberg- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. ”
- Florence Nightingale- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3. ”
- Igor Stravinsky- Copy
- 4K
“ He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
- 895
“ What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 2.3K
“ To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live. ”
- Ruth Hubbard- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. ”
- Francis Schaeffer- Copy
- 3.2K
“ When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 600
“ The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally, and that, if possible, he should get the reputation of being well-to-do in the world. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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