Quotes About Choice

freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

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

any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

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).

O bien se reconoce la libertad decisoria del hombre a favor o en contra de los hombres o toda educación es una ilusión.

La libertad no es la última palabra. La libertad es una parte de la historia y la mitad de la verdad. La libertad es la cara negativa de cualquier fenómeno humano, cuya cara positiva es la responsabilidad. De hecho, la libertad se encuentra en peligro de degenerar en mera arbitrariedad salvo si se ejerce en términos de responsabilidad.

La libertad se encuentra en peligro de degenerar en mera arbitrariedad salvo si se ejerce en términos de responsabilidad.

Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

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

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

And there were always choices to make. 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, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate. Seen

there is a danger inherent in the teaching of man's nothingbutness, the theory that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions, or the product of heredity and environment. Such a view of man makes a neurotic believe what he is prone to believe anyway, namely, that he is the pawn and victim of outer influences or inner circumstances. This neurotic fatalism is fostered and strengthened by a psychotherapy which denies that man is free.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him— mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

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

El hombre no está absolutamente condicionado y determinado, al contrario, es él quien decide si cede ante determinadas circunstancias o si resiste frente a ellas… El hombre no se limita a existir, sino decide cómo será su existencia, en qué se convertirá en el minuto siguiente.

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.

Freedom is not something we have and therefore can lose; freedom is what we are.

Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

A human being is not one thing among others - Things determine each other, but Man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes, within the limits of endowment and environment, he has made out of himself.