"‘According to nature’ you want to live? O you noble Stoics, what deceptive words these are! Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without purposes and consideration, without mercy and justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; imagine indifference itself as a power - how could you live according to this indifference? Living - is that not precisely wanting to be other than this nature? Is not living - estimating, preferring, being unjust, being limited, wanting to be different? And supposing your imperative 'live according to nature’ meant at bottom as much as 'live according to life’ - how could you not do that? Why make principle of what you yourselves are and must be?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On the Prejudices of Philosophers’ 9 in Beyond Good and Evil, p. 15.
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