Quotes with free-thought

Quotes 581 till 600 of 1401.

  • Marcus Aurelius In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Alberto Giacometti In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • B. F. Skinner In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • H. A. Kramers In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
    H. A. Kramers
     
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henrik Ibsen In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Woody Allen Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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  • Persius Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Maximilien Robespierre Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
    Maximilien Robespierre
    French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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  • Byron Katie Is it true?
    Can you absolutely know that it's true?
    How do you react when you believe that thought?
    Who would you be without the thought?
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Garry Kasparov It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Agatha Christie It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Tom Lehrer It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Voltaire It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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