Fatalistic themes recur throughout Ecce Homo. Explaining why he returned to Rome while writing Zarathustra, Nietzsche comments that “some fatality was at work” (EH III: Z-4).
He declares that “amor fati” is the mark of “greatness”: that one does not merely “bear what is necessary . . . but love[s] it” (EH II: 10). Later he remarks (not surprisingly) that “amor fati is my inmost nature” (EH III: CW-4).
The depth of Nietzsche’s fatalism regarding his own life becomes most apparent in a long passage from the second chapter of Ecce Homo. Nietzsche is here discussing his development as a philosopher, after noting that, “To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion what one is” (EH II: 9).
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