--Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.
Saint Joan (1924) sc. 4
--George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
He drew a circle that shut me out--
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!
Shoes of Happiness (1915) "Outwitted"
--Edwin Markham 1852-1940
The difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy. bk.iv, ch.2
from Heroes and Hero-Worship
--THOMAS CARLYLE 1795-1881