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If man were not free, then he could not conceive of causality at all, and could not form any concept of it. Insight into lawfulness is already freedom from it.
Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be At1 = At2.
Sex and Character (1903)
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
Sex and Character (1903)
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
Sex and Character (1903)
The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.
Sex and Character (1903)
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
Sex and Character (1903)
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
Sex and Character (1903)
To understand a man is really to be that man.
Sex and Character (1903)
No two moments in the life of an individual are exactly alike; there is between the later and the earlier periods only the similarity of the higher and lower parts of a spiral ascent.
Sex and Character (1903)
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
Sex and Character (1903)
There are men who are willing to marry a woman they do not care about merely because she is admired by other men. Such a relation exists between many men and their thoughts.
Sex and Character (1903)
The highest expression of all morality is: Be!
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
Sex and Character (1903)
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.
Sex and Character (1903)
Logic is a law which must be obeyed, and man realizes himself only in so far as he is logical. He finds himself in cognition.
Sex and Character (1906)
No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity would have to become its own object.
Sex and Character (1903)
A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
Sex and Character (1903)
Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.
In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.
Sex and Character (1903)
Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
Sex and Character (1903)