Arthur Schopenhauer - A man can do what he wants, but not...
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Arthur Schopenhauer - A man can do what he wants, but not...
As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you’re not free to choose your desires
Ian McEwan • Machines Like Me: A Novel
Ultimately we should realize that we do not control our desires.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Choices, efforts, intentions, and reasoning influence our behavior—but they are themselves part of a chain of causes that precede conscious awareness and over which we exert no ultimate control.