Ifs Quote by Billy Meier

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our…

— Alexander Pope

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

— Joseph Sobran

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

— Ernest Renan

There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from…

— Isaac Asimov

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

— Arthur Helps

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want…

— Oswald Spengler

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

— Allan Bloom

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no…

— Pope Gregory XVI

Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save…

— George MacDonald

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

— Erich Fromm

“The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e…

— Karl Friedrich Bahrdt