Quotes About Autonomy

Having an assistant (except for the strictly necessary) removes your soul from the game.

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

You have far more control over your life if you decide on your criterion by yourself.

Only the autodidacts are free. And not just in school matters—those who decommoditize, detouristify their lives.

But he left us with a good lesson: never trust the words of a man who is not free.

bottom-up political systems, and

not accepting other people's wisdom as gospel.

The reader knows my opinion on unsolicited advice and sermons on how to behave in life.

but I am free to choose a profession where I am not a slave to external pressure.

you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.

a free person does not need to win arguments—just win.

someone who cannot be squeezed into doing something he would otherwise never do.

didn't care what my parents (and grandfather) thought of me.

The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain why you did something.

I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else's arbitrary opinion, particularly when much of what's done inside large corporations violates my sense of ethics.

It was a barbell—play it safe at school and read on your own, have zero expectation from school.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking. You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.

and the two need to be kept separate.

It is more difficult to be a loser in a game you set up yourself.

Stalin could not have existed in a municipality.

At the limit, you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.

when you leave people alone, they tend to settle for practical reasons.