Quotes with free-thought

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  • Francis Schaeffer Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
    Francis Schaeffer
    American theologian and philosopher (1912 - 1984)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Armstrong Williams For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Habit is a shackle for the free.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Andy Rooney I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • John F. Kennedy I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bryan Fuller If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Aldous Huxley Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Simone Weil Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Fuller Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Simone Weil The real stumbling-block of totalitarian rĂ©gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Simone Weil We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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