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“…freedom in its essence is the acceptance of the chains which suit you and for which you are suited, and of the harness in which you pull towards an end chosen and valued by yourself, and not imposed. It is not, and never can be, the absence of restrictions, obligations or law and of duty.”
― Bronislaw Malinowski, Freedom and Civilization

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“Who are these people whose admiration you seek? Aren’t they the ones you are used to describing as mad? Well, then, is that what you want – to be admired by lunatics?”
― Epictetus

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“Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?”
― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

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“…what the behavior of men themselves reveals as the purpose and object of their lives, what they demand of life and wish to attain in it. The answer to this can hardly be in doubt: they seek happiness, they want to become happy and remain so.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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“…what things may be in themselves, I know not, and need not know because a thing is never presented to me otherwise than as a phenomena.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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