“If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay; without that, we are poor, miserable serfs and slaves.”
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
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Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932) Austrian philosopher
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