Full Idea
Anaximander discovers the contradictory character of our world: it perishes from its own qualities.
Gist of Idea
Anaximander saw the contradiction in the world - that its own qualities destroy it
Source
report of Anaximander (fragments/reports [c.570 BCE]) by Friedrich Nietzsche - Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 19 [239]
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Unpublished of 'Unfashionable Obs' period (v 11)', ed/tr. Gray,Richard T. [Stanford 1995], p.75
A Reaction
A lovely gloss on Anaximander, though I am not sure that I understand what Nietzsche means.