Noun
intellectual freedom
The freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas without restriction.
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. Franz Boas
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge. Theodor Adorno
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture. Andrei Sakharov
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. Philip Pullman
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Virginia Woolf
... to promote precisely that manner of intellectual freedom that has no place in the regnant philosophical movements. Theodor Adorno