Ramana Maharshi Quotes

We are freer than we think.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

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

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

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.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

Well you don’t have to do it.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The free man never thinks of escape.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

We are bound by nothing except belief.