All Quotes By Tag: Freedom
“By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one can tell ‘what is right’ and ‘what is wrong’, it makes one have discretion between good and bad; whereas by Knowing Vignan (spiritual science), one attains liberation. By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one gets awareness of what is beneficial and what is harmful.”
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“The science (vignan) of religion and the knowledge (gnan) of religion are different things. There is liberation through science!”
“If you wish to leave, do so by all means. Bother to let me know so I don’t wait like a fool, by the locked door for you.”
“Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the divider of humanity. If every human could be removed of their blindfolds and see that faith is in itself faith and that this is something which belongs to each and every human being, then at that time the dividers of religion will suddenly mean nothing and we will all see that we are united by faith in and of itself. There is only one faith and it is called faith. And no man needs to prove to another man that what he believes in exists, because even if it does not exist, his faith is his belief that it is there, that something is there, and that in itself is faith. So I do not need to prove to any man that what I believe in exists or not, there is no such contest between man, my faith breathes in the body of my belief; the fact that I believe is the breath of my faith.”
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“If there’s a definition of freedom, I think it’s this: living life on your terms.”
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“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo Tolstoy’s latest work, a work which at the same time, by virtue of its creative, poetic force, ranks almost first among all that has appeared in Russian literature since 1840. No! without culture, without freedom in the widest sense, freedom within oneself, freedom from preconceived ideas, freedom with regard to one’s own nation and history, without this, the real artist is unthinkable; without this free air he cannot breathe.”
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“I laid my palm on the second square – the woman in the field and the slaves flying in the air over her head. All that hope in the wind.”
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“Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.”
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“Give me liberty or give me death.”[From a speech given at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt’s Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
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“The Truth is harsh, but it will take you out of trash.”
“The long term effect of lies are worse than the short term embarrassment that come from facing the truth.”
“Those who see the truth as trouble will end up having to see trouble as the truth.”
“Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.”
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“And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.”
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