„What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„So then you’re free?’‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.“
— Franz Kafka
„We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„To free one's mind of chains is to free it of the care of what is acceptable or viewed so by society, this is when true freedom is discovered.“
— John Dewey