The good man … has learnt to set at naught the injunctions laid upon him by those most lawless rulers of the soul, inspired as he is by his ardent yearning for the freedom whose peculiar heritage it is that it obeys no orders and works no will but its own.

A man is morally free when...he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity

man must love his father and yet be free of his father’s expectations and criticisms in order to be a free man.

— a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.

I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.

George Santayana: A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

But where's the man, who counsel can bestow,
Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know?
Unbias'd, or by favour or by spite;
Not dully prepossess'd, nor blindly right;
Though learn'd, well-bred; and though well-bred, sincere;
Modestly bold, and humanly severe?
Who to a friend his faults can freely show,
And gladly praise the merit of a foe?
Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfin'd;
A knowledge both of books and human kind;
Gen'rous converse; a soul exempt from pride;
And love to praise, with reason on his side?

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

A man is free when he sees clearly the fulfillment of his being and is thus capable of making the envisioned self a reality.

It is wisdom that sets a man free. Nothing else.

I should give such advice myself, knowing that a friend may give counsel as to outer things, but that a man must satisfy his inner conscience by his own perceptions of what is right and what is wrong.

A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.