Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

28646 quotes

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"Those bound by vice are the truest slaves."
Girolamo Savonarola
G
"The marketplace of ideas demands both courage and honesty."
Girolamo Savonarola
G
"Those consumed by envy have imprisoned themselves."
Girolamo Savonarola
A
"The mind, when freed from fear, becomes infinitely capable."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
N
"The greatest delight is in breaking the chains of ignorance."
Nicodemus Copernicus
"The work of the anatomist is the work of liberation through knowledge."
Andreas Vesalius
"The most revolutionary act in learning is to verify everything yourself."
Andreas Vesalius
"Inherited beliefs without evidence are chains masquerading as wisdom."
Andreas Vesalius
B
"Freedom of thought is the foundation of all human progress."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"Freedom of inquiry is the prerequisite for advancement in understanding."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"The pursuit of knowledge is an act of liberation from fear and superstition."
Bernardino Telesio
E
"True freedom lies not in the absence of constraints, but in the mastery of oneself."
Edward Wotton
E
"The freedom to think is more valuable than freedom of movement."
Edward Wotton
C
"Freedom is the right to choose your own chains, provided you do not strike others with them."
Cosimo de Medici
P
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
Paracelsus
P
"Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule; of them the inquisitor can have no knowledge; they precede the time of the body."
Paracelsus
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"The freedom of the body without the freedom of the spirit is merely a pleasant prison."
Girolamo Savonarola
G
"The paradox of freedom is that it exists only for those strong enough to use it wisely."
Girolamo Savonarola
N
"The greatest tyranny is the tyranny of accepted ignorance."
Nicodemus Copernicus
N
"The mind is freer than any bird, yet bound by the laws of nature."
Nicodemus Copernicus
N
"Freedom is the natural state of the mind that thinks."
Nicodemus Copernicus
A
"The mind is the only prison from which there is no escape except through enlightenment."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
A
"Freedom without understanding becomes merely another form of slavery."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
B
"True knowledge requires abandoning false authorities and seeking nature itself."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"The study of nature liberates us from the tyranny of false opinions."
Bernardino Telesio
B
"The study of nature is the cure for the disease of dogmatism."
Bernardino Telesio
C
"To be free, one must first understand the chains that bind us."
Cosimo de Medici
C
"The freedom to think is the freedom to become."
Cosimo de Medici
E
"Liberty without responsibility is merely license to do harm."
Edward Wotton
E
"The paradox of freedom is that it requires the discipline to use it wisely."
Edward Wotton