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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
“a thought comes when "it" wishes, and not when "I" wish”
Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, §17, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)
Nietzsche's challenge to the logician's assumption that the 'I' is the condition of thinking.
Citation: "a thought comes when "it" wishes, and not when "I" wish" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, §17, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q4)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
