Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.”
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
Context: When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.
"Four Letters: Escapism" (1936)
Willa Cather on Writing (1949)
“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 10
Context: Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like : the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions. So also did political freedom in the golden age of Greece and in the early days of the Roman era.
History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 327, (1937)
Judicial opinions
Source: The Science of Rights 1796, P. 173-175
Source: Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943), p. 314
Context: According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.
Source: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. V: Government and Law, p. 75
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 180
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
