Quotes About Freedom

Seni elde etmeyi ne bir Kaiser, ne bir Çar ya da ne bir "tüm proleterlerin babas?" ba?arm?? de?ildir. Onlar seni ancak kölele?tirdiler, ama hiçbiri seni o küçüklü?ünden, bir ?v?r-z?v?r olmaktan kurtaramad?. Seni elde edecek olan tek ?ey, içinde bulunan temizlik, ar?l?k duygusudur, ya?ama kar?? duydu?un özlemdir sana gerçekten egemen olabilecek tek ?ey.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness...we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.

It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Many people find the priming results unbelievable, because they do not correspond to subjective experience. Many others find the results upsetting, because they threaten the subjective sense of agency and autonomy. If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware of it, how free are you? Anchoring

If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware of it, how free are you?

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

The decision of whether or not to protect individuals against their mistakes therefore presents a dilemma for behavioral economists. The economists of the Chicago school do not face that problem, because rational agents do not make mistakes. For adherents of this school, freedom is free of charge.

Gauß kam auf den Zufall zu sprechen, den Feind allen Wissens, den er immer habe besiegen wollen. Aus der Nähe betrachtet, sehe man hinter jedem Ereignis die unendliche Feinheit des Kausalgewebes. Trete man weit genug zurück, offenbarten sich die großen Muster. Freiheit und Zufall seien eine Frage der mittleren Entfernung, eine Sache des Abstands...

Wie leicht alles wurde, wenn man aufbrach.

?i noi to?i, care ne uitam în sus, am în?eles deodat? ce înseamn? lejeritatea. Am în?eles cum poate fi via?a pentru unul care face cu adev?rat ce î?i dore?te, nu crede în nimic ?i nu ascult? de nimeni. Am priceput cum ar fi s? fii un astfel de om ?i am mai priceput c? noi nu vom fi niciodat? astfel de oameni.

În realitate, nimic nu te re?ine acolo unde toat? lumea crede c? trebuie s? r?mâi.

The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . . . . . Whether you like it or not.

Remember you don't really own anything you can't carry at a dead run.

To begin, a man who aspires to this kind of personal honesty must throw off all interpretations of himself that depend on anything that supposedly transcends his life, such as a god or a soul. Man exists here in this world, so that must be his point of departure. Staying free from his psychological and intellectual inheritance will be a continual struggle for him, an ever-lurking danger.

When all is said and done, this Existentialist precept resonates with me more than any other philosophy of life I know. The idea that life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to me. In fact, it seems absolutely essential.

never trying to change others, but rather giving them the freedom to be as they are and seeing the beauty in them as is.