Full Idea
If I have anything of a unity within me, it certainly doesn't lie in the conscious 'I' and in feeling, willing, thinking, but somewhere else: in the ... prudence of my whole organism, of which my conscious self is only a tool.
Gist of Idea
Unity is not in the conscious 'I', but in the organism, which uses the self as a tool
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 34[46])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.2
A Reaction
What an interesting thinker Nietzsche was! I think I agree with this. I think the self is built on the necessary internalised body-map all animals must have. The body requires the map, not the map needing the body.