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Full Idea
The absolute necessity of all events contains nothing of a compulsion.
Gist of Idea
That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 1[114])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.286
A Reaction
I like to look for necessity-makers behind necessities. So if the event is not necessary because of its cause, where does it come from? Is it that the whole sequence is a unified necessity?