“The sole possible free moral action is concentration upon the ideas of the Ought which are already present. To sin is consciously to choose to forget, through a narrowing of the field of attention, an Ought that one already recognizes. For while I cannot avoid acting in accordance with the Ought so long as I clearly know it, I can through voluntary inattention, freely choose to forget it.” The World and the Individual, vol. II (New York: Dover Publications, 1959), p. 359.
