29 Quotes About Freethinking

In my opinion, there are only two types of truly empowered people: freethinkers and the ones in power".

I am not a non-believer. In fact, I am a devout believer in God. And that God is I, the Human.

If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic.

But I'm not even human, waking on this soil like a dead life.

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

It took me 30 years to realize that being fearless doesn't mean not being afraid, but remaining steadfast despite it.