“[Nietzsche’s doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don’t forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that “each moment of life ought to be motivated.””

Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.
Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxiii

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