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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:

    To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Where do your greatest dangers lie?—In pity.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Our vanity wishes precisely what we do best to be regarded as what is most difficult to us. On the origin of many a morality.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)