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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    Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath myself, now a god dances through me.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    As soon as a religion comes to dominate, it has as its opponents all those who would have been its earliest disciples.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices—and to make sure that somebody notices.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)