Friedrich Nietzsche: You Are Not Your Personality Modern Theo Fredrich Nietzsche: You Aren’t Your Personality Source The ego, the subjective feeling of “I,” the personality, the thinker of thoughts, this value is best characterized as the inner voice: the second-guesser, the bickerer, the judger, the indignant, the excited, the thing that’s jealous. Presuming your inner-voice is you―what then? How confident is this presumption? You sit and concentrate on dull, necessary assignments — what happens? Disruptions arise of sexual fantasy, hunger, fear, anxiety, pleasure, name your impulse. If voluntary thought can be interrupted by involuntary, which is you? The interrupted or interrupter? The beginning question must be replaced by another. If your inner-voice isn’t you — what then? “…a thought comes when ‘it’ wishes, and not when ‘I’ wish, so that it is a falsification of the facts of th...