Freedom in being exactly what I was created to be!
(Source: horan-shelley)
April142013
February172013
“We are not free by nature, we are born into debt. We enter a ready-made social world. It isn’t perfect, but it is absurd to think it should be.”
C. R. Wiley
(Source: theimaginativeconservative.org)
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“When it came to politics modern philosophers disagreed about many things—but one thing philosophers as different as Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau could agree upon is that freedom is natural and in some sense social institutions are not. To the medieval mind freedom was a moral achievement perfected with the aid of social institutions. The reason for the disagreement is that modern thinkers tended to focus on actions and how society constrains them while medieval thinkers focused on character and how social institutions help to develop it. Put another way—modern thinkers were concerned with freedom to do as you please while medieval thinkers were concerned with being pleased by the right things.”
C. R. Wiley
(Source: theimaginativeconservative.org)
May32012
“Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
April242012
“Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.”
Nicolas Gomez Davila
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