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· He takes advantage of the undeniable affinity of our capacity for action, for changing reality, with this mysterious faculty of ours that enables us to say, 'The sun is shining,'when it is raining cats and dogs. If we were as thoroughly conditioned in our behaviour as some philosophies have wished us to be, we would never be able to accomplish this little miracle. In other words, our ability to lie-but not necessarily our ability to tell the truth-belongs among the few obvious, demonstrable data that confirm human freedom"
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