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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Famous quotes containing the word nietzsche:

    Finding everything deep—that is an inconvenient trait: it causes a person constantly to strain his eyes and eventually to find out more than he might have wished.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    If married couples did not live together good marriages would be more common.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: rapture.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)