#thou

You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-the-thought #idea #freedom

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. ↗

— Iain Pears

#freedom #immortality #liberation #meaning #philosophy

Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity with freethinking. ↗

— Joel T. McGrath

#writing #freedom

A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#freedom #man #oneness #self #freedom

A freedom given up is not so easily regained. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#civil-liberty #civil-rights-movement #constitution #constitutional-rights #freedom

The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-thought #intentions #thinking #freedom

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- ↗

— Langston Hughes

#free-thought #philosophy #religion #art

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#crying #doing #either #else #i

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#eeyore #humor #thinking #thoughts #winnie-the-pooh

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. ↗

— Grace Metalious

#drives #even #girlfriend #glass #had