Quotes About Autonomy

The great thing about real life is that it belongs to you. You can make it up as you go along!

the best sources in the Western tradition have argued that morality is much more than, indeed qualitatively different from, the sum of the values that an essentially autonomous self chooses for itself. Classical, Jewish, and Christian sources, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, or Augustine, John Chrysostom, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin, insist that morality is neither plural nor subjective.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

A human being should never become a means to an end.

For in every case man retains the freedom and the possibility of deciding for or against the influence of his surroundings.

he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

But what about human liberty? Is there no spiritual freedom in regard to behavior and reaction to any given surroundings?

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

al hombre se le puede arrebatar todo, salvo una cosa: la libertad humana —la libre elección de la acción personal ante las circunstancias— para elegir el propio camino. Y allí siempre había ocasiones para

The choices humans makes should be active rather than passive. In making personal choices we affirm our autonomy. A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, Frankl writes, bbut man is ultimately self determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment - he has made of himself..

never permit the patient to pass to the doctor the responsibility of judging.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.

In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance

man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

Instead, either he wishes to do what other people do (conformism), or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).