Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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The fewer laws there are in a given world, the nearer it is to the will of the Absolute the more laws there are in a given world, the greater the mechanicalness, the further it is from the will of the Absolute.
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