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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Open Letter to Professor Penrose
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In article <4ddpj0$ef3@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
Edward LaBonte  <elabonte@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>In <4d8evv$jdd@gap.cco.caltech.edu> ikastan@alumnae.caltech.edu (Ilias
>Kastanas) writes: 
>
>>	Sartre: "You can do whatever you want, but you cannot want
>>whatever you want"
>>
>
>Thank you for that quote. I was under the impression that Sartre was a
>big defender of free will. How does he reconcile those two ideas?

Like most factual statements in this group, the claim that this quote is from
Sartre is false.  The quote, which Einstein credited for changing his life,
freeing him of a burden and instilling humility, was penned by a different
20th century philosopher whose name stated with S.

"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it
not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions." -- more of the same

-- 
<J Q B>

