Quotes with free-thought

Quotes 701 till 720 of 1401.

  • Emma Goldman Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Albert Camus Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • James Allen Mind is the Master - power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills - He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Henry Kissinger Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • David Seabury Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ''ambivalence'': a collision between thought and feeling.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • John Berger Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Alexander Herzen Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • James Baldwin Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Agnes Smedley More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Billy Bragg Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Carol Roth Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Rupert Murdoch Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
    Rupert Murdoch
    Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931) (1931 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harry Houdini My Brain is the key that sets me free.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Phil McGraw My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.'
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Brendon Urie My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Betty Cuthbert My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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