In different individuals, their inclinations and naturally differing intensity will cause the stability of simple willing to vary: “every individuality is and remains a chameleon” (SW II: 93). Nonetheless, they originate in a “unified source and point of reference” that constitutes the “essential core of individuality” (Weiss 1928: 213). Hence while choice only occurs in accordance with an individual, particular standard, it remains the precondition for the consolidation of character itself. It is out of simple willing and the psychological character to which it gradually gives rise that the “matter” is gathered, as it were, with which one has to work, and from which he ultimately “must secure the demands that he makes of himself”: “Being is what gets a person started; demands follow after” (PS I: 198).