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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
Only the educated are free.
anti-intellectual
A dependent mind is not free, and without freedom, enlightenment is impossible.
The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
A free spirit is the master of its own universe.
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
I am a free person.
I am free to dream.
I am free to pursue my dreams.
I am free to love.
I am free to serve mankind.
To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity.
I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Conclusion: better to be a thinking monk than a postmodern
thinker.
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe
A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding. He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
As so often with the ideologically committed free marketer, there is no sense that he's actually thinking about what he's saying; he's merely adumbrating arguments towards a conclusion he reached in advance.
I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can't imagine any more of them.
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.
Live life hifreelancer
An Atheist, is nothing but a bankrupt Anarchist.
A mere society form of Atheism.
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
Born again atheist, practicing troublemaker
Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.
I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.
Taxonomically, my family is Freethinker (including atheists, skeptics, agnostics); my genus is Humanist (including the religion-based), and my species is Secular.
A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.
Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
I am a free man.
Only the Fearless are truly Free.
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
People can only be free if they are truly educated.
We who walk the narrow line have stood for free thinking for thousands of years. Let us continue balancing within the world as we try to understand the space between.
I get the concept, all right
like, why would God make me gay and then tell me it's a sin to be gay? But the freethinkers were confusing me. ' I don't get it. They have no religion, but they sort of believe in God, but they don't believe in faith?
To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.
If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.
To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.
The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.
Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.
Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.
As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.
No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty
Your thoughts are as free as any bird
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
It means leaving behind your physical body. Leaving the cage of your physical flesh, breaking free of the chains, and letting pure logic soar. Giving a natural life to logic. That's the core of free thought.
A free mind and a free economy are corollaries. One can't exist without the other.
Those who are not Free, can't even climb a Tree ... Forget about them being what they want to Be!-RVM
Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.
I used to be a free spirit.
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.
With Free minds all are to worship their Gods
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong>strongstrong> to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind
Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things?
You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions.
The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.
The path of genius is free, and its own
I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
You are always free when you have the ability to think.
Is there a thinker apart from thought?
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
You can handcuff my wrists, and Shackle my feet. You can bind me in chains, throw me in your deepest darkest dungeon...but you can't enslave my thinking...for it is free like the wind.
Free to fail, free to succeed; the choice is yours, but you are free.
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of
leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.
Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.
Somewhere inside you is that free person I'm talking about. Locate her and let her do some good in the world
Freedom in thinking gives you the opportunity to follow your passions and dreams.
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.
No one can be free unless he is independent.
I'm a radical, and I always have been.
A person who wants to believe lives in a world full of proof.
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.
Being free is a state of mind.
Question your thoughts.
Question your stories.
Question your assumptions.
Question your opinions.
Question your conclusions.
Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy.
The keys to freedom are in your hands.
Use them.
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Freedom is for the curious ones. Free is the one not influenced by taboos. Free is the one who reasons and evolves continuously, and refuses to accept anything without thinking.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions
as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise.
Our thoughts are free.
We should put our trust not in the crowd, who say that only free men can be educated, but rather in the philosophers, who say that none but the educated can be free.
To look at possibility is to be free.