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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

20359	The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: The doctrine of being, of things, of all sorts of fixed unities is a hundred times easier than the doctrine of becoming, of development.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §238)
	A reaction: I don't know if he intended it, but this is a fierce shaft hurled at Aristotle, who gives a wonderful essentialist account of the nature of things, but can offer nothing more on becoming than the doctrine of potentiality and actuality.