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Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche
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a little old woman, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part (1883)Assorted Opinions and Maxims (1879)Assorted Opinions and Maxims published as first supplement to Human, All-Too-Human (1879)Assorted Opinions and Maxims published as first supplement to Human, All Too Human (1879)attributed to a fool, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part (1883)
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one who obeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 3, p. 468, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Gay Science, first edition, "Third Book," aphorism 109 (1882).
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