“Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings.”
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
“Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.”
“Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.”
“Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.”
“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)”