Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Beyond good and evil (№ 404001)

“Cause” and “action” should not be reified, as naturalists (and those who now follow their manner of thinking) do according to the prevailing mechanistic stupidity, forcing cause to push and push until it “activates”. "Cause" and "action" should be used as pure concepts, that is, as generally accepted fictions, for the purpose of designation, agreement, and not explanation. In the "essence of things" (An-sich) there is no "causal connection", "necessity", "psychological lack of freedom": there "action" does not follow "the cause", no "law" reigns there. It is we, only we have invented reasons, sequence, interconnection, relativity, compulsion, number, law, freedom, foundation, purpose; and if we conceive, mix with things this world of signs as something "in itself", then we act again as we have always done, namely, mythologically.