freedom Quotes

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'