Full Idea
Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity.
Gist of Idea
Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §120)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.73
A Reaction
I like that. The notion of dividing humanity into natural and unnatural makes me uneasy (and certainly isn't PC), and yet us all having to be 'natural' seems a conservative straight-jacket.