Virginia Woolf Quotes

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

Our thoughts are free.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

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

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

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

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

Advocacy and belief go hand in hand. For there can be no true freedom of mind if thoughts are secure only when they are pent up.

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

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

No man's mind can possibly lie wholly at the disposition of another, for no one can willingly transfer his natural right of free reason and judgment, or be compelled to do so.

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

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

In a free state, both the tongue and the mind ought to be free.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

I require no bayonets to defend the liberty of my thoughts.

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

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