Freedom isn’t intrinsically valuable
Quotes that support this principle
“What humans need and want isn’t a complete release of tension and responsibility, but the pursuit of a worthwhile goal that they chose freely.” — Viktor Frankl
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“It was immediately a wake-up call. My efforts up to that point had been focused on achieving freedom and pursuing novelty, but now that I had maximized them, I wasn’t any happier. Arguably I was less happy since I’d ditched plenty of amazing things (relationships, communities, cities) out of a sense that they limited my freedom… Freedom is a currency, and I’m much more interested now in spending it.” — Nat Eliason
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“The price of anything is the amount of life you pay for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
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