Joseph Beuys Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

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

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

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.

Freedom begins between the ears.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

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.

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.

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.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.

Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.

No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

I don't want to tell people what they should think.