free thinker
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This anthology left me humbled — and determined to double down on my commitment as a writer, a free thinker, a humanist.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
Written in 1779 by the German free thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it has been brought to the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater at the D.C.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022
In recent years, he has increasingly alienated himself from the astronomical community, painting himself as a brave free thinker challenging the close-minded dogmas of the broader scientific world.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2021
And though he comes on as a free thinker, he is also a bit of a bully; family members aren’t afraid of him exactly, or yet, but they don’t tell him everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2021
It has been truthfully said of him in proof of his inconsistency, that he was a free thinker at London, a Cartesian at Versailles, a Christian at Nancy, and an infidel at Berlin.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
