9 quotes found
“We make choices and are in turn made by them.”
“For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can choose freedom even when he has no physical autonomy. In order to do so, he must know what choice is...”
“One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they cant be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home...”
“Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what wed ...”
“The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that were likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which were forced to make ...”
“Like the swimming rats in Richters experiment, we can survive for only so long without solid ground beneath our feet; if the choices arent real, sooner or later we will go under. Its important, the...”
“At its best, choice is a means by which we can resist the people and the systems that seek to exert control over us. But choice itself can become oppressive when we insist that it is equally availa...”
“When the options are few, we can be happy with what we choose since we are confident that it is the best possible choice for us. When the options are practically infinite, though, we believe that t...”
“Like the swimming rats in Richter’s experiment, we can survive for only so long without solid ground beneath our feet; if the choices aren’t real, sooner or later we will go under. It’s important, ...”
