“This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, book The Will to Power

Sec. 6 (Notebook W II 2. Autumn 1887, KGW VIII, 2.237, KSA 12.571 [citations are to Nietzsche's manuscripts by archival code, and the page numbers in which the entire section can be found transcribed therefrom, in the hardcover and softcover historical-critical editions]).
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