As we have said, the will proclaims itself primarily in the voluntary movements of our own body, as the inmost nature of this body, as that which it is besides being object of perception, idea. For these voluntary movements are nothing else than the visible aspect of the individual acts of will, with which they are directly coincident and identical, and only distinguished through the form of knowledge into which they have passed, and in which alone they can be known, the form of idea.
Soin propioaren esentziaz bere baitan, soin hori dena bezala, begiespenaren objektu, errepresentazio denaz gainera, jadanik esan denez, nahimenak bere buruaren berri ematen du soin horren hautazko higiduretan, horiek nahimen-egintzen ikuskortasuna besterik ez diren bezainbatean, zeinekin aldi berean bitartegabe eta osoki bat eta bera bezala agertzen baitira, ezagugarritasunaren formaren bitartez bakarrik bereizten direla haietatik, zeinetara iragan baitira, h. d. errepresentazio bilakatu baitira.