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Nietzsche

Further information: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Intrinsic motivation

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was influenced by Schopenhauer when younger, but later felt him to be wrong. However, he maintained a modified focus upon will, making the term "will to power" famous as an explanation of human aims and actions.

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    The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Our ‘neighbor’ is not our neighbor, but our neighbor’s neighbor”Mthus thinks every people.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it stares us in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing’s name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.—For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)