Orthodoxy-Unorthodoxy

The most universal quality is diversity. (Montaigne)

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. (Blake)

Tradition by itself is not enough; it must be perpetually criticized and brought up-to-date under the supervision of what I call orthodoxy. (T S Eliot)

That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbour as a possible enemy; where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. (Learned Hand)

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. (Oscar Wilde)

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. (Elbert Hubbard)