49 Quotes About Free-thought
- Author Abhijit Naskar
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A thinking human must practice thinking.
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- Author Tacitus
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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
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- Author Joe Blow
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Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.
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- Author Noam Chomsky
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It's very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they're ineffective, they can't defend themselves against indoctrination, they can't even figure out what they think.
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange Gods.
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.
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- Author Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
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Free thought is a passion; it is much rather the thoughts than ourselves that are free.
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- Author Marquis de Sade
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There is no stupidity religions have omitted to revere; and you know just as well as I, my friends, that when one examines a human institution, the first thing one must do is discard all religious notions. They are poison to lucidity.
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- Author Laurence Galian
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The Gnostic has always been free to express his or her Gnosis in the manner he or she wishes. The Gnostics of the Nag Hammadi Library perhaps could be considered free thought, free spirited seekers of Gnosis, who reject authority and dogma.
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