Nietzsche
Further information: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Intrinsic motivationFriedrich 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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Famous quotes containing the word nietzsche:
“In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything—and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the “productive” man a yet higher species.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Youth is disagreeable time, for it is neither possible then nor prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)