Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 300 | What if what View more quotes about might">might be best for one was not truly the best for the other? What was best for one, it seems, might depend, really, not on politics and conditioning, not on cultural accidents and the idiosyncrasies of an ephemeral historical situation, but on other things, say, nature, truth, fact, such things. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 297 | Was that so impossible to conceive of? Perhaps people, perhaps the sexes, were really different. |
| 12 | 298 | Certainly they seemed very different. |
| 12 | 299 | One had to struggle not to see that. |
| 12 | 300 | What if what might be best for one was not truly the best for the other? What was best for one, it seems, might depend, really, not on politics and conditioning, not on cultural accidents and the idiosyncrasies of an ephemeral historical situation, but on other things, say, nature, truth, fact, such things. |
| 12 | 301 | Perhaps human beings had a nature, like other species. |
| 12 | 302 | If so, what was her nature? Presumably, whatever it was, it would be a fact about her. |
| 12 | 303 | She did recognize, of course, that freedom was not an absolute, and that even the most free, so to speak, were subject to countless limitations. |
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Was that so impossible to conceive of? Perhaps people, perhaps the sexes, were really different.
Certainly they seemed very different.
One had to struggle not to see that.
What if what might be best for one was not truly the best for the other? What was best for one, it seems, might depend, really, not on politics and conditioning, not on cultural accidents and the idiosyncrasies of an ephemeral historical situation, but on other things, say, nature, truth, fact, such things.
Perhaps human beings had a nature, like other species.
If so, what was her nature? Presumably, whatever it was, it would be a fact about her.
She did recognize, of course, that freedom was not an absolute, and that even the most free, so to speak, were subject to countless limitations.
- (Prize of Gor)