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Mystery Is Not Freedom

By kyb ( October 25, 2004 at 8:49 pm) · Filed under philosophy, philosophydiary, freedom

Men are deceived if they think themselves free, an opinion which consists only in this, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined.

— Benedict Spinoza, Ethics

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