Freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Free speech is unthinkable. All other kinds of freedom are permitted.
Free nations, remember this maxim: Liberty may be acquired but never recovered.[Peuples libres, souvenez-vous de cette maxime: On peut acquérir la liberté, mais on ne la recouvre jamais.]
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
For enlightenment of this kind, all that is needed is freedom. And the freedom in question is the most innocuous form of all-freedom to make public use of one’s reason in all matters.[Zu dieser Aufklärung aber wird nichts erfordert als Freiheit; und zwar die unschädlichste unter allem, was nur Freiheit heißen mag, nämlich die: von seiner Vernunft in allen Stükken öffentlichen Gebrauch zu machen.]
Every man being born free and master of himself, no one can, under any pretext whatsoever, enslave him without his assent.[Tout homme étant né libre et maître de lui-même, nul ne peut, sous quelque prétexte que ce puisse être, l’assujettir sans son aveu.]
Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
At the end of all freedom is a court-sentence; that’s why freedom is too heavy to bear, especially when you’re down with a fever, or are distressed, or love nobody.
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn’t enjoy any of it because he really wasn’t free. It was sadly true.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or the other.
