## Metadata - Author: [[Timothy Snyder]] - Full Title: On Freedom - Category: #books ## Highlights - Freedom is not an absence but a presence, a life in which we choose multiple commitments and realize combinations of them in the world. ([Location 156](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CQJHQB27&location=156)) - The five forms are: sovereignty, or the learned capacity to make choices; unpredictability, the power to adapt physical regularities to personal purposes; mobility, the capacity to move through space and time following values; factuality, the grip on the world that allows us to change it; and solidarity, the recognition that freedom is for everyone. ([Location 198](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CQJHQB27&location=198))