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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • He was very much aware: that in the experience of oneself as an ego,
  • knowledge, we must find a point of view which will lead the ego to
  • of science must be widened to take into account the ego that
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • will, or is freedom a mere illusion begotten of his inability to
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • of the statesman in the most complicated diplomatic negotiations,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • Ego, belongs to the realm of spirit as a part of it; the material
  • himself driven into a corner. Over against the “I” or Ego,
  • circle of activity of the Ego, as if bewitched.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • must at the same time demand that it should forego all
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • the foregoing considerations it follows that it is impossible to prove
  • would have to be: How does the Ego produce the world of mental pictures out
  • Ego at all, then his question will be, not how one of his mental pictures is
  • illusionism who denies altogether the existence of an Ego-in-itself behind
  • the mental pictures, or at least holds this Ego to be unknowable. We might
  • The foregoing arguments show that it is senseless to look for any
  • “Ego-in-itself” standing behind the percept of the subject, but the
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • to our particular subjectivity, our individual Ego. The
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • To this category belongs the “thing-in-itself”. It is
  • in indivisible unity with these laws. Our Egohood confronts
  • percepts. Within our Egohood, however, lies the power to
  • Egohood has taken the two elements of reality which are
  • in the foregoing pages, certain ideas which originate in the
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • ego-consciousness out of this thinking. Thinking, in its own essential
  • nature, certainly contains the real I or ego, but it does not contain the
  • ego-consciousness. To see this we have but to observe thinking with an open
  • mind. The “I” is to be found within the thinking; the “ego-consciousness”
  • general consciousness, in the sense explained above. (The ego-consciousness
  • to imply that the ego-consciousness, once it has arisen, remains dependent
  • The “ego-consciousness” is built upon the human organization. Out
  • attaining individual happiness, is called egoism. The attainment of
  • other individuals (pure egoism), or by promoting the good of others, either
  • egoistical principles of morality will depend on the mental pictures which
  • determine the content of his egoistical striving in accordance with what he
  • the foregoing moral principle. Of course, they will have to take into the
  • authority very different from that of the foregoing cases. If a man holds to
  • of civilization, or when we act from egoism, and so forth, but in an action
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • individual satisfaction (egoism) is a folly, and that he ought to be guided
  • pursue their egotistical cravings they are unfit for such selfless labour.
  • the pleasures of life pursued by egoism cannot be attained, do they devote
  • should exterminate egoism by making it see the hopelessness of its case.
  • It cannot be said that egoism is overcome in the true sense of the word by
  • pessimists, are not strong enough to overcome egoism; but they establish
  • of the hopelessness of egoism.