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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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✓Similar Perspectives

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

— Sharon Salzberg

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

— Bertrand Russell

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

— Muhammad Iqbal

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

— Ralph Adams Cram

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

— James Dickey

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

— Marilyn Monroe

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

— Everett Dirksen

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

— George Berkeley

✗Opposing Perspectives

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

— George Berkeley