Stephen Hawking Quotes

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...

Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is important is to open your mind because you gain some freedom through it.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

The perfect world is created when the mind is free to see it.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.