Jacques Lipitz Quotes

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

Freedom to reject is the only freedom

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Self Control, Not State Control

For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.

What, in the end, is freedom but the ability to choose?