What most clearly ...

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
 Georg C. Lichtenberg

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
 Georg C. Lichtenberg
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
 Georg C. Lichtenberg
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
 Georg C. Lichtenberg
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
 Georg C. Lichtenberg
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
 Georg C. Lichtenberg