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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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    Modern marriage has lost its meaning—consequently it is being abolished.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going—that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
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