“Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them provided, of course, that it doesn't violate the identical right of others whether the people around them approve of what they do or not.” PeopleSelfCoursesIndividualWishRightsEffectsAgreeFundamentalsPropertyLibertarianOwnersOwnershipIdenticalProperty RightsSelf OwnershipOwnership And Control Author:L. Neil Smith
“We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.” MeanIdeasFeelingsIndividualAtheismPersonalityConsciousCrowdsPositive AtheismTendenciesCharacteristicsUnconsciousPrincipalSuggestionsIdenticalDisappearanceContagion Book:Psychologie des foules Source: Psychologie des foules
“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.” ThinkingMindSoulWholeRememberUniverseIndividualKnowingConditionsObjectsActivityEternalFormerImmortalOne TimePassiveIdentical Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books] Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.” IndividualBrainConsciousnessGoneLifetimeOver YouTwinsIdenticalIdentical TwinConjoined Twins Author:Gerald Edelman