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• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • light on these questions, which are, in my opinion, the most
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • as free, and the coward his desire for flight. Again, the drunken
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • in our flight from Nature.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • an account of how thinking lights up in the presence of an
  • of it know why, for my observation, thunder follows lightning;
  • with the concept of lightning. It does not matter in the least
  • whether I have the right concepts of lightning and thunder.
  • process in my brain connects the concept lightning with the
  • So far, there is not the slightest reason why I should
  • just as if someone seeing a moving light were to insist that it
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • percept-picture has only degrees of light and dark. Others
  • light and color. Light, color, and warmth, then, are the
  • of light results, irrespective of whether the stimulation
  • is due to what we call light, or whether mechanical pressure
  • to me by the sense of touch, those of color and light
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • plant only if there is soil in which the seed can be planted, and light
  • elastic medium, which by their very nature have not the slightest in common
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • sensation. This same pressure can be sensed as light by the
  • eye as light, by the ear as noise, by the nerves of the skin as
  • light, or sound, or perhaps a certain smell, and so on. If there
  • were no eye present, then no perception of light would
  • electrical process calls forth light in the eye, conclude that
  • what we sense as light is only a mechanical process of
  • as light, so we could equally well say that a regular and
  • throw any light on the relation of percept to mental picture.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • Thus it is said that in the spectrum of light the eye perceives
  • in the extravagant flights of fancy for which the brilliant
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • of this relationship is able to throw light on its nature. A proper
  • lights up within this organism. My instincts, urges and passions establish
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • light. For those who think of their concepts as merely
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • are themselves incapable of even the slightest productive
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • feelings attach themselves are revealed as illusions by the light of reason,
  • was ambitious; in recollection they appear to him in a milder light, whereas
  • intensity of our desire. If someone takes great delight in eating, he will,
  • to amuse myself by a game or by light conversation, and if I am totally
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • ideas that lights up within him, embracing all that is separate,
  • ever brought to light any content that was not borrowed
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • between extinguishing and lighting up again of