The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Pythagoras

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin

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

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
Jay London

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Martin Heidegger

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton Cooley

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Will Durant

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Will Durant

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Aeschylus