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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-22 · 21:22 UTC

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

[Wenige sind imstande, von den Vorurteilen der Umgebung abweichende Meinungen gelassen auszusprechen; die Meisten sind sogar unfähig, überhaupt zu solchen Meinungen zu gelangen.]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 4, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-22 · 21:22 UTC

A quotation from Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

[Wenige sind imstande, von den Vorurteilen der Umgebung abweichende Meinungen gelassen auszusprechen; die Meisten sind sogar unfähig, überhaupt zu solchen Meinungen zu gelangen.]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 4, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/210/

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James Phelps @[email protected] · 2026-05-23 · 15:16 UTC

I support:
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James Phelps @[email protected] · 2026-05-23 · 15:16 UTC

I support:
#BlackLivesMatter
#democrats
#fitness
#freethinking
#LBGTQRights
#TearDropTrailers
#etc

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-09 · 21:20 UTC

A quotation from Henry Commager

We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-09 · 21:20 UTC

A quotation from Henry Commager

We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

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Fabrice BEAUDOIN-QUÉRÉ @[email protected] · 2026-03-09 · 17:36 UTC

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satire @[email protected] · 2025-12-21 · 20:25 UTC

@MostlyHarmless Free of Thinking isn’t the same as Free Thinking, it would seem.

It seems to be that we have the political equivalent “why do you keep punching yourself?” Going on.

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satire @[email protected] · 2025-12-21 · 20:25 UTC

@MostlyHarmless Free of Thinking isn’t the same as Free Thinking, it would seem.

It seems to be that we have the political equivalent “why do you keep punching yourself?” Going on.

#humor #exceptWeAreLivingIt #freeThinking #poorAndGullible

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-11-24 · 21:22 UTC

A quotation from John Adams

Let the human Mind loose. It must be loose; it will be loose. Superstition and Despotism cannot confine it.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1816-11-13) to John Quincy Adams

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/6140/

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Kindle Daily Deals @[email protected] · 2025-11-09 · 04:30 UTC

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense "Read this book, strengthen your resolve & help us all return to reason" Sale: $19.99 to $1.99 by Gad Saad Rating: 4.7/5 (5810 Reviews) #politics #freethinking #civilrights #commonsense #liberty #empathy #criticalthinking #BookSky

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Kindle Daily Deals @[email protected] · 2025-11-09 · 04:30 UTC

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense "Read this book, strengthen your resolve & help us all return to reason" Sale: $19.99 to $1.99 by Gad Saad Rating: 4.7/5 (5810 Reviews) #politics #freethinking #civilrights #commonsense #liberty #empathy #criticalthinking #BookSky

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-07-17 · 23:10 UTC

A quotation from Moliere

CLÉANTE:These are the arguments of all your kind:
   Since they can’t see, they think that no one ought;
   Whoever does, is tainted with free thought;
   Whoever balks at pious affectation
   Fails to hold piety in veneration.
   Come now, for all your talk, I’m not afraid;
   Heaven sees my heart, and I know what I’ve said.

[Voilà de vos pareils le discours ordinaire:
Ils veulent que chacun soit aveugle comme eux;
C’est être libertin que d’avoir de bons yeux;
Et qui n’adore pas de vaines simagrées
N’a ni respect ni foi pour les choses sacrées.
Allez, tous vos discours ne me font point de peur;
Je sais comme je parle, et le ciel voit mon cœur.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Frame (1967), 1.5]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/77776/

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