GA77:78 – vontade

Scientist: You therefore distinguish between willing and will. I am, however, unable to conceive of what precisely is meant with this distinction. I am reluctant to expect of you the superficial view that the word “will” is merely meant to designate the faculty for willing.

Guide: With the word “will” I do not in fact mean a faculty of the soul, but rather that wherein the essence of the soul, mind, reason, love, and life is based, according to a unanimous yet hardly thought through doctrine of occidental thinkers. If we understand by “willing” the human carrying-out of this will, then there is concealed in the still completely obscure relation between will and willing a relationship; yet I lack the word to name it. (p. 49)