Will (philosophy) - Nietzsche

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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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    That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people—but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Before we go seeking man we will have to have found the lantern.—Will it have to be the Cynic’s lantern?
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)