"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use" — Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves

Source: Letter to H. L. Pierce (Apr. 6, 1859)

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains

Source: The Social Contract, book 1 (1762)

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Quote