Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.
Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.
From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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