freedom (n.) is available to man only when he is alone.

Arthur Schopenhauer on Freedom

Allow

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Arrive Uninvited But Expected

Brighten When Ignored

Burn Going Down

Burn Like Copper

Create Their Own Problems

Cut Both Ways

Echo An Empty Room

Escape Gravity

Feel Irreversible

Feel Like A Teenager Again

Feel Like The Weekend

Feel Too New For The Room

Go Out Too Late

Have No Bottom

Never Use The Same Voice Twice

Quietly Measure Character

Refuse To Give A Fuck

Reward Departure

Ring Like Glass

Ring Like Lint

Ring Like Metal

Ring Like Milk

Ring Like Salt

Ring Like Silence

Ring Like Smoke

Smell Like Dust

Smell Like Milk

Smell Like Summer

Sound Like Static

Sound Like Vinegar

Sound Like Wine

Stick Like Rain

Stick Like Rust

Stick Like Salt

Stick Like Water

Stick Like Wood

Taste Like Silence

Taste Like Wine

Tilt The Floor

Weigh Like Ash

Weigh Like Echo

Weigh Like Metal

Weigh Like Mildew

Weigh Like Milk

Weigh Like Morning

Weigh Like Silence

Weigh Like Stone

Weigh Like Sugar

Weigh Like Water

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Jean-Paul Sartre

4th of July

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America

pick-up line

North Korea

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kinkiness

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

academia

leisure

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leisure time

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sleep

sleeping

waking up

adulting

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shower

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not giving a fuck

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subway

Your freedom ends where others' freedom begins.

We may rest assured that freedom is worth whatever it costs.

From: “… is the truth of substance; and since substance has necessity …”

is available to man only when he is alone.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone... and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom... for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer

Recast in definition form from: “I may add as an explanation that the use of mystery has been attempted even in philosophy; for example, when Pascal, who was pietest, mathematician, and philosopher in one, says in this threefold character: God is everywhere centre and nowhere periphery.”

must be placed in being, not in doing — esse, not operari — and then sin, evil and the world itself proceed from that being.

Recast in definition form from: “Now this is the case when freedom is placed in the esse instead of in the operari; and sin, evil and the world then proceed from that esse.”

is a negative concept — only the denial of necessity: every thing as phenomenon is absolutely necessary, and in itself is will, perfectly free to all eternity.

Recast in definition form from: “The concept of freedom is thus properly a negative concept, for its content is merely the denial of necessity Everything as phenomenon, as object, is absolutely necessary: in itself it is will, which is perfectly free to all eternity.”

is what everyone believes a priori, thinking he can begin a new life at any moment; experience teaches him a posteriori, to his astonishment, that he must play out to the end the very character he condemns.

Recast in definition form from: “But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity; that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns, and as …”

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