Orthodox Quotations | Page 2

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

It's unique. He's like a little kid, running around out there. He's got a lot of energy. In competitive situations, that flows over to other players. It's not the most orthodox way of playing, but he's productive.

David is very explosive. He's unorthodox and you'll see knees and kicks coming from all angles. I have to be careful of that, and I have to be aware of his elbows, because they're razor sharp.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy: (a) I think, therefore I am; or (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.

One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.