any man who takes refuge behind the excuse of his passions, or by inventing some deterministic doctrine, is a self-deceiver.
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When Descartes said, “Conquer yourself rather than the world,” what he meant was, at bottom, the same – that we should act without hope.
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If values are uncertain, if they are still too abstract to determine the particular, concrete case under consideration, nothing remains but to trust in our instincts.