98 Quotes About Freethought

Meditation has nothing to do with crouching and chanting, meditation means losing oneself in activity - any activity of one’s own choosing – mental or physical.

Meditation has nothing to do with crouching and chanting, meditation means losing oneself in activity - any activity of one’s own choosing – mental or physical. Music is meditation, painting is meditation, dancing is meditation, math is meditation - any act that helps you lose yourself and elevates your mind in the process, is an act of meditation.

The world doesn't need more meditation on slogans and mantras and imaginary entities - what the world needs is meditation on justice - it needs meditation on equality - it needs meditation on inclusion. Only with such meditation can we make sure that serenity, sanity and sanctity pervade inside of us and all around us.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity.

Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

I have no path, for I am the path.

A civilized world will grow out of our own heart, once we realize, there's no greater truth than the one of the heart - the heart which is neither black, nor white, the heart which is neither man, nor woman, nor non-binary, the heart which is neither wise nor foolish, the heart which is neither rich nor poor - the heart which is ever-free, ever-boundless.

Freedom is not the purpose, it's the path.