Cognitive Liberty Quotes

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

Our thoughts are free.

We must preserve our right to think and differ.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.