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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Truth and the Past' and 'Parerga and Paralipomena'

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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 1. Identity and the Self

571	Is Socrates the same person when standing and when seated? [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Who, except the philosopher, is going to ask whether Socrates and Socrates seated is the same thing?
	From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1004b01)

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

21477	We don't control our own thinking [Schopenhauer]
	Full Idea: Thoughts come not when we want but when they want.
	From: Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], III:37)
	A reaction: One of my favourite Nietzsche ideas originated in Schopenhauer!