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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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    What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    He who attains his ideal, thereby also transcends it
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)