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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    What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good—the atavism of an older ideal.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Anyone who has ever constructed a “new heaven” has discovered the power to do it nowhere but in his own hell.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Who, for the sake of his good reputation, has never once—sacrificed himself?
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)