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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.

— Otto Weininger

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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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Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

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Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

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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.

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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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