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Where all a man's acts are merely the reflex behaviour dictated by his sense-impressions, he has hardly any life higher than an animal one. It is the business of this quest to insert the influence of consciousness of the causes and results of his actions, reason, and will into such behaviour.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 2