Quotes About Autonomy

Ultimately nobody can help anyone else in life; one has this recurring experience in every conflict and confusion: that one is alone. This is not as bad as it may appear at first glance; it is also the best thing about life that everyone contains everything within himself: his fate, his future, his entire scope and world.

Play the game, but play it your own way – part of the time at least. Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?" He shook his head. "No, Brother, we have to make such decisions ourselves.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat

Be your own father, young man

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

The World exists for you ; Build therefore your own world

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

The antidote to this abuse of formal government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.

Are we really ever completely our own person or have we been conditioned in ways beyond our own imagination?

I don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that.

Don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

don't want to change sides and just be told what to do. There's no reason to change if I do that." "You're wise already!