Willing Is a Complex of Sensations and Thinking

Schopenhauer: Willing seems to me to be above all something complicated, something that is a unity only in name. In every act of the will there is a ruling thought, and let us not imagine it possible to sever this thought from the willing, as if the will would then remain over. A man who wills commands something within himself which renders obedience,. or which he believes renders obedience. I am free, he must obey. This consciousness is inherent in every will. But now let us notice what is the strangest thing about the will. This affair so extremely complex, for which the people have only one name. The word ‘will’ has been used by Sch