Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 302 | If so, what was her View more quotes about nature">nature? Presumably, whatever it was, it would be a fact about her. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 12 | 304 | At best, freedom was relative, even for the free. |
| 12 | 305 | But these considerations were not germane to what concerned her most. |
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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.
At best, freedom was relative, even for the free.
But these considerations were not germane to what concerned her most.
- (Prize of Gor)