Tolstoy says somewhere that his freedom consisted "in my not having made the laws."
And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle.
Most incompatibilists reject the idea that freedom of action consists simply in "voluntary" behavior.
The only real freedom (kaivalya) consists in realizing the ultimate separateness of matter and self.
Of what does freedom of the human spirit consist, that quality on which I place so much stress?
Hegel, he said, once wrote that "freedom consists in being at home."
In Simmel's view, then, freedom consists, in part, in the articulation of the self in the medium of things.
But I've never discovered an answer to that old question of what does freedom really consist.
My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.
Personal freedom consists largely in having a defense against questions.