The Inner Nature of Phenomena

Chopinar says the inner nature of his own phenomena, which manifests itself to him as representation, both through his actions and through the permanent substratum of his body, is his will. This will constitute what is most immediate to his consciousness, but as such it is not wholly entered into the form of the representation in which object and subject stand over and against each other. On the contrary, it makes itself known in an immediate way in which subject and object are not quite clearly distinguished, yet it becomes known to the individual himself, not as a whole, but only in its particular acts. And then he goes on, he says, he will recognize the same will, not only in those