![]() ![]() So let us for once be more cautious, let us be ‘unphilosophical”: let us say that in all willing there is firstly a plurality of sensations, namely, the sensation of the condition ‘AWAY FROM WHICH we go,’ the sensation of the condition ‘TOWARDS WHICH we go,’ the sensation of this ‘FROM’ and ‘TOWARDS’ itself, and then besides, an accompanying muscular sensation, which, even without our putting in motion ‘arms and legs,’ commences its action by force of habit, directly we ‘will’ anything. Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher that was born in the mid-19th century. Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Beyond Good and Evil. ![]() When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. Willing-seems to me to be above all something COMPLICATED, something that is a unity only in name-and it is precisely in a name that popular prejudice lurks, which has got the mastery over the inadequate precautions of philosophers in all ages. Dont be a memory-monger Once you were youngnow you are even younger. ![]() But it again and again seems to me that in this case Schopenhauer also only did what philosophers are in the habit of doing-he seems to have adopted a POPULAR PREJUDICE and exaggerated it. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Philosophers are accustomed to speak of the will as though it were the best-known thing in the world indeed, Schopenhauer has given us to understand that the will alone is really known to us, absolutely and completely known, without deduction or addition. Friedrich Nietzsches Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. ![]()
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