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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage—it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse IV: The Despisers of the Body, trans. Thomas Common (1892)
The central statement of Nietzsche's embodied psychology: the conscious ego is an instrument of the body.
Citation: "Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage—it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse IV: The Despisers of the Body, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q7)
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