Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 297 | Was that so View more quotes about impossible">impossible to conceive of? Perhaps people, perhaps the sexes, were really different. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 294 | The question, you see, was one of simple, empirical fact. |
| 12 | 295 | Its solution was not essentially a consequence of a particular conditioning program, one of a possibly infinite number of such, or the inevitable result of some supposedly self-evident, axiomatic proposition, or some supposedly a priori theory, but of the world, the nature of things, of simple, empirical fact. |
| 12 | 296 | Perhaps freedom was not the ideal for everyone. |
| 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. |
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The question, you see, was one of simple, empirical fact.
Its solution was not essentially a consequence of a particular conditioning program, one of a possibly infinite number of such, or the inevitable result of some supposedly self-evident, axiomatic proposition, or some supposedly a priori theory, but of the world, the nature of things, of simple, empirical fact.
Perhaps freedom was not the ideal for everyone.
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.
- (Prize of Gor)