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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. Human Nature, ch.11

--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