Quotes About Choice

vivir significa asumir la responsabilidad de encontrar la respuesta correcta a las cuestiones que la vida plantea, cumpliendo la obligación que nos asigna.

I bear witness of the inestimable extent to which man, although he is never free from conditions and determinants, is always free to take a stand to whatever he might have to face. Although he may be conditioned and determined, he is never fully determined, he is not pandetermined.

Man's intrinsically human capacity to take a stand to whatever may confront him includes his capacity to choose his attitude toward himself, more specifically, to take a stand towards his own somatic and psychic conditions and determinants.

Der er et vist mål af frihed til enhver, selv om det kun gælder valget af hårfarve.

Ultimately, man is not subject to the conditions that confront him; rather, these conditions are subject to his decision.

The, world is not, as a great existential philosopher has seen it, a manuscript written in a code we have to decipher. No, the world is no manuscript which we are asked to decipher, but cannot; it is, rather, a record which we have to dictate ourselves.

Man is by no means fully free. Man is not free from determinants. Man's freedom is a finite freedom, not freedom from conditions; his freedom lies in the potentiality for taking a stand toward whatever conditions might confront him.

Human responsibility rests on the 'activism of the future,' the choosing of possibilities from the future, and the 'optimism of the past,' the making these possibilities a reality and thereby rescuing them into the haven of the past.

M]an is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he succumbs to conditions or defies 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.

A human being is a deciding being.

M]an is by no means a product of inheritance and environment. Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end education is just education towards the ability to decide.

M]an is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself! And, in the end, education must be education toward the ability to decide.

Between the stimulus and the response there is a space, and in that space is your power and your freedom.

Ä°nsan?n gerçekte ihtiyac? olan, gerilimin olmad??? bir durum deÄŸil kayda deÄŸer bir hedef, özgürce seçilmiÅŸ bir görev uÄŸruna uÄŸraÅŸ ve mücadeledir. Ä°htiyaç duyduÄŸu ÅŸey, ne pahas?na olursa olsun gerilimden kurtulmak deÄŸil, onun taraf?ndan kar??lanmay? bekleyen potansiyel bir anlam?n çaÄŸr?s?d?r.

He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Freedom is part of the story and half of the truth. Being free is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is being responsible. Freedom may degenerate into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

It was Kierkegaard who told the wise parable that the door to happiness always opens 'outwards', which means it closes itself precisely against the person who tries to push the door to happiness 'inwards', so to speak.

Ceux qui ont vécu dans les camps se souviennent de ces prisonniers qui allaient, de baraque en baraque, consoler leurs semblables, leur offrant les derniers morceaux de pain qui leur restaient. Même s'il s'agit de cas rares, ceux-ci nous apportent la preuve qu'on peut tout enlever à un homme excepté une chose, la dernière des libertés humaines : celle de décider de sa conduite, quelles que soient les circonstances dans lesquelles il se trouve.

Ng??i ta không có tá»± do ?? khÆ°á»›c t? b?t h?nh hay ch?y tr?n kh?i bi k?ch, nhÆ°ng có tá»± do lá»±a ch?n thái Ä'á»™ c?a mình trÆ°á»›c nh?ng gì x?y ra

ng??i ta có th? l?y Ä'i c?a má»™t ng??i m?i th?, ch? tr? má»™t Ä'i?u: sá»± tá»± do - sá»± tá»± do trong vi?c lá»±a ch?n thái Ä'á»™ s?ng trong b?t k? hoàn c?nh nào, và sá»± tá»± do lá»±a ch?n hÆ°á»›ng Ä'i c?a mình.

Man exists authentically only when he is not driven, but, rather, responsible.

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.

Inimene on kõikjal saatusega silmitsi ja sunnitud otsustama, kas kujundada kannatus saavutuseks.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..