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Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it. Power and accident are but names for ignorance of the casual chains, but the chains exit whether we feel them or not. Fortunately we do not, for if we felt their weight, we could scarcely act at all.
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For the mathematician, the proof of these theorems is part of the free exercise of his natural reasoning capacity.
— Jul 19, 2025 06:32PM
Mingyao
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The greatest of these is the open war that is being fought between two systems of ideas which return different and conflicting answers to what has been the central question of politics - the question of obedience and coercion.
— Jul 19, 2025 04:25PM
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To demand a unity of method in philosophy, and reject whatever the method cannot successfully manage - is merely to allow oneself to remain at the mercy of primitive and uncriticized political beliefs.
— Jul 19, 2025 04:21PM
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Action is choice; choice is free commitment to this or that way of behaving, living, and so on; the possibilities are never fewer than two: to do or not to do; be or not be.
— Jul 06, 2025 12:19PM
