Freedom Quotes

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

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"The mind that is open to truth is never imprisoned."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Freedom is not the right to do as we wish, but to become who we truly are."
Jacob Böhme
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"Freedom begins when we cease being slaves to our own desires."
Jacob Böhme
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"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?"
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Do not shut the day or night up in the boxes of your clock."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest and let the spirits fly in and out."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The gift of love is a freedom we have never known."
Hafiz
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"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."
Hafiz
"Freedom of conscience is among the highest gifts bestowed upon us."
Charles Wesley
"Freedom without responsibility becomes licentiousness and self-destruction."
Charles Wesley
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"The slave of desire is farther from freedom than the imprisoned."
Ibn Arabi
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"Freedom is the burden of choice; responsibility is its price."
Ibn Arabi
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"The more we are determined by external things, the more we are subject to passions and destruction."
Spinoza
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"He alone is free who lives solely by the dictate of reason."
Spinoza
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"Imagination binds us to time; reason and intuition free us into eternity."
Spinoza
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"We are determined by external causes in proportion to our inadequate ideas."
Spinoza
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"The love of freedom is rooted in the love of understanding."
Spinoza
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"Renounce what you think you need, and you will find perfect freedom."
Teresa of Avila
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"The highest form of freedom is the freedom to love."
Teresa of Avila
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"True freedom comes from releasing what we cannot control."
Teresa of Avila
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the wise use of our will."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Freedom without wisdom is chaos; wisdom without freedom is tyranny."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"The slave of passion is enslaved; the lover of God is free."
Ibn Arabi
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"The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union."
John of the Cross
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"All earthly attachments are chains that bind the soul."
John of the Cross
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"True freedom is liberation from the tyranny of self."
John of the Cross
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"Freedom is the liberation of the soul from all that is not God."
John of the Cross
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"There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and fighting. I'll meet you there."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"The bird of your soul only wants to fly."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)