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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"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door that he does not think to try."Wittgenstein, Richard
"Freedom without responsibility becomes tyranny."Fine, Arthur
"We are creatures of habit, bound by conventions we didn't choose."Kaplan, David
"We are bound by the concepts we use to think."Kaplan, David
"We are creatures of language, limited and enabled by it."Kaplan, David
"Freedom is the right to choose our own path."Lewis, David
"We are not slaves to our nature."Geach, Peter
"Freedom is responsibility."Geach, Peter
"The freedom to think differently is the foundation of all other freedoms."Fine, Arthur
"Freedom multiplies when we use it to enlarge the freedom of others."Fine, Arthur
"Real freedom comes not from the absence of constraints but from choosing your own."Lewis, David
"Freedom requires eternal vigilance against those who would take it."Lewis, David
"Logic is not tyrannical; it is liberating."Geach, Peter
"The mind that seeks comfort over truth is a mind in chains."Geach, Peter
"The strongest chains are often those we forge ourselves."Fine, Arthur
"The greatest freedom is freedom from your own thoughts."Fine, Arthur
"Freedom without responsibility is merely another form of captivity."Fine, Kit
"Freedom without responsibility is merely the freedom to cause harm."Lewis, David
"Freedom is the responsibility to act according to your deepest convictions."Lewis, David
"The rules of conversation are not restrictions on freedom; they are the conditions of freedom to communicate."Grice, Paul
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to think otherwise."Fine, Arthur
"We are all prisoners of our frameworks, but we needn't be slaves to them."Fine, Arthur
"Freedom begins when we recognize the contingency of our perspectives."Fine, Arthur
"Freedom consists in the absence of necessity, not in the absence of law."Ryle, Gilbert
"To be free is to act from one's own nature."Ryle, Gilbert
"Freedom without responsibility is merely the freedom to destroy ourselves."Lewis, David
"Language is the primary medium of human freedom and dignity."Grice, Paul
"Freedom is not the absence of causation but alignment with rational necessity."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Freedom and responsibility presuppose the capacity for reasoning."Sellars, Wilfrid
"Science respects no authority but evidence."Hempel, Carl