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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

19615	I want to suppress in myself the normal reasons people have for action [Cioran]
	Full Idea: I want to suppress in myself the reasons men invoke in order to exist, in order to act.
	From: E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'Gamut')
	A reaction: So much of our inner and moral life concerns not what we think or feel, but what we want to think or feel. The theory of action (if there can be such a thing) must account for these metareasons, which hover over us while we act.