independent-thought

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5f8457e	Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.	reading books pg-84 senator-pococurante opinions fame taste judgment independent-thought	Voltaire
7824434	The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.	opinions skepticism independent-thought thinking	Christopher Hitchens
0db84a7	People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.	independence inspirational anarchism liberty independent-thought revolution	Emma Goldman
ec69311	When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.	politics religion inspirational critical-thinking dogma freedom-of-thought independent-thought	Anaïs Nin
12c0216	He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.	influence thoughts originality independent-thought	Milan Kundera
e0f708f	Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.	faith religion blind-faith discussion judaism doctrine disagreement shouting freedom-of-thought independent-thought jews	Iain Pears
ea12e72	The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.	independence self-awareness self-awareness-honesty-self independent-thought self-realization	Markus Zusak
9a4b42f	Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.	freedom reason education philosophy good-sense freedom-of-religion inquisition doctrine schooling rationality freedom-of-thought independent-thought persecution	Iain Pears
b5ddfee	"Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside. And then when the startled dust had settled down about Montag's mind, Faber began, softly, "All right, he's had his say. You must take it in. I'll say my say, too, in the next hours. And you'll take it in. And you'll try to judge them and make your decisions as to which way to jump, or fall. But I want it to be your decision, not mine, and not the Captain's. But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen."	reading freedom independent-thought	Ray Bradbury

5f8457e

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

reading books pg-84 senator-pococurante opinions fame taste judgment independent-thought

Voltaire

7824434

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

opinions skepticism independent-thought thinking

Christopher Hitchens

0db84a7

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

independence inspirational anarchism liberty independent-thought revolution

Emma Goldman

ec69311

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

politics religion inspirational critical-thinking dogma freedom-of-thought independent-thought

Anaïs Nin

12c0216

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

influence thoughts originality independent-thought

Milan Kundera

e0f708f

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.

faith religion blind-faith discussion judaism doctrine disagreement shouting freedom-of-thought independent-thought jews

Iain Pears

ea12e72

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

independence self-awareness self-awareness-honesty-self independent-thought self-realization

Markus Zusak

9a4b42f

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.

freedom reason education philosophy good-sense freedom-of-religion inquisition doctrine schooling rationality freedom-of-thought independent-thought persecution

Iain Pears

b5ddfee

"Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside. And then when the startled dust had settled down about Montag's mind, Faber began, softly, "All right, he's had his say. You must take it in. I'll say my say, too, in the next hours. And you'll take it in. And you'll try to judge them and make your decisions as to which way to jump, or fall. But I want it to be your decision, not mine, and not the Captain's. But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen."

reading freedom independent-thought

Ray Bradbury