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