Orthodoxy Quotes - Page 7

• The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the doctrines of a Buddhist orthodoxy. Individuation is a process of recovering personal authority through freeing ourselves from the constraints of collectively held belief systems.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhist, Practice, Priorities

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• A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Rewards, Rich, Pursue

  Source: progressive.org

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• Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

  Bertrand Russell

  May, Matter, Graves

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.16, Routledge

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• By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Ignorance, Heresy, Identifying

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• Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.

  Geneva Overholser

  Thinking, Offending, Editors

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• Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, all these guys talk about how the United States became a national security state after World War II. I agree with that thesis. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd or stupid they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy.

  Michael Hastings

  Stupid, War, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Listening, Church

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• This is the beauty of Donald Trump, that he goes against the Republican orthodoxy, much of which has been rejected a lot of Republican voters, who, well, would be Republican voters, at least in my state, who I think would otherwise like to vote Republican.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Voters, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics, you just throw all that out the window, limited government and you just embrace the sheer and raw politics of resentment that have been bubbling the whole time and that`s what you get. You get Donald Trump.

  Chris Hayes

  Government, Issues, Gains

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

  Jim Hightower

  Destiny, Order, Empowering

  "Populism Is Not A Style" by Jim Hightower, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2009.

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• Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

  George Ayittey

  Gone, Faults, Claims

  "Border Jumpers". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2005.

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• On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Views, Issues

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Commitment, Roles, May

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• I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Glory, Snares, Fullness

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.119, Zondervan

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• Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

  Michael Atherton

  Kings, Children, Rays

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• Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

  David Brooks

  Party, Differences, Normal

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.

  Seamus Heaney

  Different, Common, Assumption

  Source: www.questia.com

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• Having total freedom to direct my own movies is more difficult than those I was hired for, where the framework has been already furnished. Unlike with my own work, I don't have to deny or feel embarrassed at the straightforwardness or orthodoxy of the directorial style, because I can say in excuse, "This is how I was asked to direct by those people."

  Takeshi Kitano

  People, Style, Excuse

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Agreement, Together, Way

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• No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Men, Training

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.187, VM eBooks

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• The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

  David Bennun

  Interesting, Literature, Bob

  Source: thequietus.com

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• First of all, there are those who simply don't care for [Bob] Dylan, or at least, don't think he's that great. Some of the former sound very much as if they are afflicted with the kind of contrarianism inevitably bred by cultural orthodoxy - Dylan is overwhelmingly rated a giant and a marvel, the acclamation of whom they feel to be de rigueur; and rather than judge for themselves, they embrace the opposite view.

  David Bennun

  Thinking, Views, Opposites

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

  Anthony Davis

  Musician, Doctrine, Jazz

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• Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.

  Brennan Manning

  Letting Go, Jesus, Good Day

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• The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where "open form" or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term "heightened speech".

  James Fenton

  Memories, Voice, Aftermath

  "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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