To be free is not to be able to do what one wants, but to want what one can do.
Existentialism
To be free is not to be able to do what one wants, but to want what one can do.
Existentialism
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"Authenticity consists in the free and lucid assumption of the situation."
Strange & Unusual"Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]."
Humorous"The Other is the indispensable mediator between myself and myself."
Shocking"The first principle of existentialism is that man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
Humorous"Only the man who does not want to be free can escape the anguish of freedom."
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