The Will to Power · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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If all unity were only unity as organisation. But the "thing" in which we believe was _invented_ only as a substratum to the various attributes. If the thing "acts," it means: we regard _all the other_ qualities which are to hand, and which are momentarily latent, as the cause accounting for the fact that one individual quality steps forward--that is to say, _we take the sum of its qualities--x--_as the cause of the quality _x_; which is obviously _quite_ absurd and imbecile! All unity is _only so_ in the form of _organisation_ and _collective action:_ in the same way as a human community is a unity--that is to say, _the reverse of_ atomic _anarchy_; thus it is a body politic, which _stands for_ one, yet _is_ not one.
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