Quotation by Friedrich Nietzsche

"Obedience" and "law"Mthat is what one hears in all moral sentiments. But "caprice" and "freedom" might yet be the last sound that morality makes in the end.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 10, p. 193, selection 5[1], number 52, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Unpublished fragments dating to November 1882February 1883.

Originally meant to be attributed to Zarathustra in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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