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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.

— Otto Weininger Sex and Character (1903)

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Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself. They celebrate their union by the highest service of truth. | p. 159.

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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.

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A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

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