Will (philosophy) - Nietzsche

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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    Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)