This is that assertion and denial of the will to live which was stated above in general terms. As, in the reference of individual conduct, a general, not a particular manifestation of will, it does not disturb and modify the development of the character, nor does it find its expression in particular actions; but, either by an ever more marked appearance of the whole method of action it has followed hitherto, or conversely by the entire suppression of it, it expresses in a living form the maxims which the will has freely adopted in accordance with the knowledge it has now attained to.
Lehen era orokorrean aipaturiko bizitzeko nahimenaren baieztapena eta ezeztapena da, zeinak norbanakoaren portaeraren ikuspegitik orokor gisa, ez nahimen-kanporatze partikularra ez karakterraren garapena nahastuz ez baitu modifikatzen, eta egintza partikularretan ere bere adierazpena ez baitu aurkitzen; baizik ordu arteko egintza-era osoaren nabarmentze beti indartsuaren bitartez, edo alderantziz, beraren ezabatzez biziki maxima adierazten baitu, zeinak aurrerantzean eskuratutako ezagutzaren arabera nahimenak aske atzeman baitu.