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He acts out of his own free choice yet at the same time that very choice was part of the universal pattern, the World-Idea. His personal freedom does not stand alone, isolated, absolute. It is inseparable from a helpless determinism. Such is the paradox of the human situation.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 4 : Free Will, Responsibility, and The World-Idea > # 123