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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self

4191	What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer]
	Full Idea: What we know in ourselves is never what knows, but what wills, the will.
	From: Arthur Schopenhauer (Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root' [1813], Ch.VII)
	A reaction: An interesting slant on Hume's scepticism about personal identity. Hume was hunting for a thing-which-experiences. If he had sought his will, he might have spotted it.