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
Its adherents are unaware of the fact that they are acting in accordance with the laws of the pendulum, and not their own will.
Vadim Zeland • Reality transurfing. Steps I-V
Ultimately we should realize that we do not control our desires.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
"You are free to do what you want, but where do your wants come from? ... Where is the freedom in doing what one wants when one's wants are the product of prior causes —which one cannot inspect, and therefore could not choose, and one had absolutely no hand in creating? ... We can't choose what we choose in life. When it seems that we choose what w... See more
Sloww Sunday: Babies, Metacognition, Developmental Deaths, & More
the question is whether they can choose their desires in the first place.