One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life that word is love. Sophocles
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas-in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. Jürgen Habermas
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. Albert Einstein
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming. Charles Kingsley
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions. Democritus