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Ideas for 'That Politics may be reduced to a Science', 'Beyond Good and Evil' and 'Plato on Parts and Wholes'

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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], §017)
     A reaction: A wonderful remark (which I have since found in Schopenhauer). I don't see how the most enthusiastic free will libertarian can deny it.
Wanting 'freedom of will' is wanting to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one's own hair [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: The desire for 'freedom of will' is nothing less than the desire to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one's own hair.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], §021)