Quotes About Freedom

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.

To belong to something – that's banal. Creeds, ideals, a woman, or profession – nothing but prisons and shackles. To be is to be free. Even ambition is a burden if it is based only on futile pride and passion. We wouldn't be so proud of it if we realized it's just a string by which we're pulled.

Quero dos deuses só que me não lembrem. Serei livre — sem dita nem desdita, Como o vento que é a vida Do ar que não é nada O ódio e o amor iguais nos buscam; ambos, Cada um com seu modo nos oprimem. A quem deuses concedem Nada, tem liberdade

Em nada me pesa ou em mim dura o escrúpulo da hora presente. Tenho fome da extensão do tempo, e quero ser eu sem condições.

And the palace perched high in the woods will be more beautiful for those who see it from the valley than for those who, imprisoned in its rooms, forget it. I take comfort in these reflections, since I can't take comfort in life.

If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.

Y fue así que nos despertamos en un mundo ávido de novedades sociales y que alegremente se lanzaba hacia la conquista de una libertad que no se sabía muy bien lo que era y de un progreso que jamás pudo definir.

Renunciation is freedom. Not wanting is power.

N'être qu'un est une prison

The art of the child is in non-realization.

Nu m? apas? cu nimic ÅŸi nici nu are cum s? dureze în mine grija fa?? de ora prezent?.Sunt înfometat de extinderea timpului ÅŸi vreau s? fiu eu necondiÅ£ionat.

Ne zevk, ne ün, ne iktidar; özgürlük, yaln?z özgürlük.

I consider myself fortunate for no longer having family, as it relieves me of the obligation to love someone, which I would surely find oppressive.

O que saiu das agitações políticas de Roma? O Império Romano e seu despotismo militar. O que saiu da Revolução Francesa? Napoleão e seu despotismo militar. E V. verá o que sai da Revolução Russa... Qualquer coisa que vai atrasar dezenas de anos a realização da sociedade livre... Também o que era de se esperar de um povo de analfabetos e de místicos?…'' (Lisboa, janeiro de 1922.)

I reasoned that God, while improbable, might exist, in which case he should be worshipped; whereas Humanity, being a mere biological idea and signifying nothing more than the animal species we belong to, was no more deserving of worship than any other animal species. The cult of Humanity, with its rites of Freedom and Equality, always struck me as a revival of those ancient cults in which gods were like animals or had animal heads.

Quien nunca ha vivido oprimido no siente la libertad.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one

El arte todo, toda la libertad, consiste en someter el espíritu lo menos posible, dejando al cuerpo que se someta a la voluntad.

Fly, bird, fly away; teach me to disappear! from The Keeper of the Sheep

Want little: you'll have everything. Want nothing: you'll be free.

Porque soy del tamaño de lo que veo y no del tamaño de mi altura. Frases como estas, que parecen crecer sin voluntad que las hubiera dicho, me limpian de toda la metafísica que añado a mi vida. Después de leerlas, me acerco a mi ventana sobre la calle estrecha, observo el vasto cielo y los muchos astros y soy libre con un esplendor alado cuya vibración me estremece el cuerpo entero.

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells. Art, if it frees us from the abstract idols of old, should also free us from magnanimous ideas and social concerns, which are likewise idols.

Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfillment of my being.

Artificiality is the best way to enjoy what's natural. Whatever I've enjoyed in these vast fields I've enjoyed because I don't live here. One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.