“Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche

Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
"Fatum und Geschichte," April 1862

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