Full Idea
There is no such thing as 'will'; it is only a simplifying conception of understanding, as is 'matter'.
Gist of Idea
The concept of the 'will' is just a false simplification by our understanding
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §671)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.354
A Reaction
Nietzsche shares this view with British philosophers such as Hobbes and Bernard Williams. So what is the ontological status of the 'will to power'?