Quotes with free-thought

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  • Will Durant Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Voltaire Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Blaise Pascal Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bono Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Martin Luther Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Clarendon Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Aaron C. Brown Many financial disasters can be traced to people who thought they were hedging.
    Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Heinrich Heine Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Aleister Crowley Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
    Adela Florence Nicolson
    English poet
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