Quotes with free-thought

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Addison Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bhagavad Gita He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Audie Murphy I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Michael Jordan I never thought a role model should be negative.
    Michael Jordan
    American basketball player and businessman (1984 - )
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  • Adrian Edmondson I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Sam Houston I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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  • Anne Tyler I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • George Orwell In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Confucius Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Hannah Arendt Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Eugenio Montale Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
    Eugenio Montale
    Italian poet (1896 - 1981)
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