Quotes About Freedom

Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!

do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

Todavía no eres libre, todavía buscas la libertad. Tu búsqueda te ha vuelto insomne y te ha desvelado demasiado. Quieres subir a la altura libre, tu alma tiene sed de estrellas. Pero también tus malos instintos tienen sed de libertad. Tus perros salvajes quieren libertad; ladran de placer en su cueva cuando tu espíritu se propone abrir todas las prisiones72.

Another form on sagacity and self-defence consists in reacting as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend ones 'freedom', ones initiative, and become a mere reagent.

Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.

Severim batmaktan baÅŸka bir yaÅŸam bilmeyenleri.

Our whole science is still, in spite of all its coldness, of all its freedom from passion, a dupe of the tricks of language, and has never succeeded in getting rid of that superstitious changeling "the subject" (the atom, to give another instance, is such a changeling, just as the Kantian "Thing-in-itself").

Ik houd van hem, die vrij van geest en vrij van hart is: aldus is zijn hoofd slechts het ingewand van zijn hart; zijn hart echter drijft hem tot ondergang.

Nu cunosc un alt fel de a duce la îndeplinire Å£eluri mari decât jocul; aceasta este, ca indiciu al m?reÅ£iei, o premis? esenÅ£ial?. Cea mai mic? constrângere, un chip întunecat, o nota dur? în voce sunt toate obiecÅ£ii ce se îndreapt? împotriva unui om, ÅŸi cu mult mai mult împotriva operei sale!

during the longest period of the human past nothing was more terrible than to feel that one stood by oneself. To be alone, to experience things by oneself, neither to obey nor to rule, to be an individual—that was not a pleasure but a punishment; one was sentenced "to individuality.

A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, whoever possesses little is possessed that much less: praised be a little poverty!

özgürlüÄŸün elde edildiÄŸinin iÅŸareti, yani art?k kendimizden utanm?yor olmak.

Alternar el amor con el odio distingue por largo tiempo el estado interior de un hombre que quiera ser libre en su juicio sobre la vida. Por fin, cuando toda la mesa de su alma está cubierta con notas de la experiencia, no tendrá para la existencia desprecio, ni odio ni tampoco amor; morará muy por encima de ella, dirigiéndole semejante a la Naturaleza, tendrá en el pensamiento, bien el verano, bien el otoño.

First, one has the difficulty of emancipating oneself from one's chains; and, ultimately, one has to emancipate oneself from this emancipation too.

Ainda agora o mundo é livre para as almas grandes. Para os que vivem solitários ou aos pares ainda há muitos sítios vagos onde se aspira a fragrância dos mares silenciosos.

Eres para tu amigo aire puro y soledad, pan y medicina? Hay quienes no pueden desatar sus propias cadenas y sin embargo son salvadores para sus amigos.

Willing liberates: for willing is creating: thus I teach. And you should learn solely in order to create!

Boldness is as natural an attribute of thought as thought is a natural attribute of freedom. . . . Man would still prefer to will Nothingness than not to will.

Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one's ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears.

It was likewise never doubted that all the antecedentia of an action, its causes, were to be sought in the consciousness and could be discovered there if one sought them – as 'motives': for otherwise one would not have been free to perform it, responsible for it.

What is the seal of liberation?— No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.

people who run must have something to run from, and half the time it's not there and half the time, of course, it is; only you never know which is which