Quotes with free-thought

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  • Harvey S. Firestone Thought, not money, is the real business capital...
    Harvey S. Firestone
    American businessman
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  • Woody Allen Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • A. E. Housman Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Blaise Pascal Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • William Shakespeare Thy wish was father to that thought.
    King Henry IV (1597) Part 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Tom Robbins To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Ayn Rand To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aeschylus To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Assata Shakur To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Richard Bach To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Samuel Johnson To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Ruskin To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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