Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

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)

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.