Facta Ficta

vitam impendere vero

Nietzsche thinking

[JGB-18]

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is...

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.