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Ideas for Ariston, Buddhaghosa and Friedrich Nietzsche

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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
20757 The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
20378 Just as skin hides the horrors of the body, vanity conceals the passions of the soul [Nietzsche]
20242 Things are the boundaries of humanity, so all things must be known, for self-knowledge [Nietzsche]
20249 Our knowledge of the many drives that constitute us is hopelessly incomplete [Nietzsche]
4551 Great self-examination is to become conscious of oneself not as an individual, but as mankind [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
2932 'Know thyself' is impossible and ridiculous [Nietzsche]
24144 A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd! [Nietzsche]
7157 We think each thought causes the next, unaware of the hidden struggle beneath [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'
18289 Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 1. Self as Indeterminate
24139 A 'person' is just one possible abstraction from a bundle of qualities [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
20368 There are no 'individual' persons; we are each the sum of humanity up to this moment [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
24099 We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind [Nietzsche]
7148 The 'I' is a conceptual synthesis, not the governor of our being [Nietzsche]
7138 The 'I' is a fiction used to make the world of becoming 'knowable' [Nietzsche]
4527 Perhaps we are not single subjects, but a multiplicity of 'cells', interacting to create thought [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
7135 'Freedom of will' is the feeling of having a dominating force [Nietzsche]
4414 Philosophers invented "free will" so that our virtues would be permanently interesting to the gods [Nietzsche]
2291 A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want [Nietzsche]
2871 Wanting 'freedom of will' is wanting to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one's own hair [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
20231 People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts [Nietzsche]
23210 That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled [Nietzsche]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
24152 Fate is inspiring, if you understand you are part of it [Nietzsche]
24133 I have perfected fatalism, as recurrence and denial of the will [Nietzsche]