“Through thought, the ego is posited. Hitherto one believed as ordinary people do, that in “I think” there was something of immediate certainty, and that this “I” was the given cause of thought—from which, by analogy, we understood all other causal relationships. However habitual and indispensable this fiction may have become by now, that in itself proves nothing against its imaginary origin. A belief can be a condition of life and nonetheless be false”
