XIII. Novelty in the WorldIt is not the case that the world “eternally creates something new.” This claim anticipates Nietzsche’s hypothesis of “eternal recurrence” in Section 341, according to which the apparently “new” is simply a re-cycled version of what has existed before. In fact there is nothing at all in the world that is eternal. Even belief in matter, which is supposed to be the eternal subject of all change, is “just another error.” This error is just as erroneous as the belief by Parmenides and his followers that there is an eternal being, which is identified with God.
