Single Idea 7157

[catalogued under 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection]

Full Idea

On the table of our consciousness there appears a succession of thoughts, as if one thought were the cause of the next. But in fact we don't see the struggle going on under the table --

Gist of Idea

We think each thought causes the next, unaware of the hidden struggle beneath

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 02[103])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.78


A Reaction

A brilliant thought. I am increasingly struck by my own lack of control over my 'trains' of thought. I am a slave to my own thinking.