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  1. To understand a free individuality we must take in the concepts by which he determines himself without mixing in our own conceptual content.
  2. "We act unfreely when we obey some perceptible external compulsion; we act freely, when we obey none but our self."
  3. "If we turn towards thinking in its essence, we find in it both feeling and will, and these in the depths of their reality."
  4. Whoever is incapable of moral ideas through intuition must accept them from others. Whoever receives moral principles from others is unfree.
  5. To understand a free individuality we take in the concepts by which he determines himself (without mixing in our own conceptual content).
  6. Love is based on the mental pictures we form of the loved one. The more idealistic these mental pictures are, the more blissful is our love.
  7. "My mission in the world is not predetermined, but is at every moment the one I choose for myself. I do not set out with fixed orders."
  8. "A moral misunderstanding, a clash, is impossible between people who are morally free."
  9. "The free human being acts morally because he has a moral idea; he does not act in order that morality may come into being."
  10. "If we act under the influence of intuitions, the driving force of our action is pure thinking."
  11. "What is impossible with Nature --creating before knowing-- we achieve with thinking. If we wait until we know it, we will never come to it.
  12. "If we set ourselves questions we cannot answer, it must be because the content of the questions is not in all respects clear and distinct."
  13. "Insofar as we sense and feel (and perceive), we are single beings; insofar as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything."
  14. "In each of us there dwells a deeper being in which the free human being finds expression."
  15. “What I was really trying to do in the Philosophy of Freedom was locate freedom empirically and thus put it on a solidly scientific basis.”
  16. "Nature makes you merely a natural being; society makes you a law-abiding being; only you can make yourself into a free human being."
  17. "A higher way sees a value in all moral principles and always asks whether in the given case this or that principle is the more important."
  18. "I acknowledge no external principle for my action, because I have found in myself the ground for my action, namely, my love of the action."
  19. "Intuition is the conscious experience -- in pure spirit -- of a purely spiritual content."
  20. Moral technique is the ability to transform the world without violating the natural laws by which things are connected.