Our character is to be regarded as the temporal unfolding of an extra-temporal, and therefore indivisible and unalterable, act of will, or an intelligible character. This necessarily determines all that is essential in our conduct in life, i.e., its ethical content, which must express itself in accordance with it in its phenomenal appearance, the empirical character; while only what is unessential in this, the outward form of our course of life, depends upon the forms in which the motives present themselves.
gure bizi-portaeraren eduki etikoa, aldaezinki determinaturik baitago eta karakter enpirikoaren arabera adierazi behar baitu bere agerpenean, aldiz, agerpen horren ez-esentziala, gure bizi-joairaren kanpoko taxuera, taxuen mendean baitago, zeinen pean motiboak aurkezten baitira: