"Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty commander, and unknown sage--he is called Self. He lives in your body, he is your body."
— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date
1883-1885
Metaphor
"Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty commander, and unknown sage--he is called Self. He lives in your body, he is your body."
Metaphor in Context
Sense and spirit are instruments and toys: behind them still lies the Self. The Self seeks with the eyes of the sense, it listens too with the ears of the spirit.
The Self is always listening and seeking: it compares, subdues, conquers, destroys. It rules and is also the Ego's ruler.
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty commander, and unknown sage--he is called Self. He lives in your body, he is your body.
(p. 2)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Daniel Dennett's review of Antonio R. Damasio's Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, 1994. In the Times Literary Supplement, August 25, 1995, pp. 3-4.
Citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zarathustra. Trans. R.J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin Books, 1969.
Date of Entry
06/14/2007
