#fr

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#academics #darwin #einstein #freud #institutions

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all. ↗

— David Carradine

#bound #death #get #i #inconvenience

Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#free #life-lessons #living #prisoner #reality

These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is prison all the same. And the Outsider? He is in prison too: nearly every Outsider in this book has told us so in a different language; but he knows it. His desire is to escape. But a prison-break is not an easy matter; you must know all about your prison, otherwise you might spend years in tunnelling, like the Abbe in The Count of Monte Cristo, and only find yourself in the next cell. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#prison #freedom

Without freedom of sex; all freedoms are temporary. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#sex #temporary #freedom

To experience the spirit of peace, one must have freedom.Neither can be obtained without the other. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#experience

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#freedom #inspirational #morality #united-states-of-america #freedom

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition. ↗

— Andrzej Stasiuk

#western-culture #freedom

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. ↗

— David Levithan

#lgbt-rights #experience

No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#racism #freedom