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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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Famous quotes containing the word nietzsche:

    “The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens—when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “A woman’s pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person’s bed to the public marketplace.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)