#will to power
“Life itself is will to power. Self preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §13 (excerpt).
“As soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image. Thus, philosophy is the tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §9 (edited excerpt).
“Suppose we succeeded in explaining our entire instinctive life as the development and ramification of one basic form of the will. One would then have gained the right to determine all efficient force univocally as will to power.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §36 (edited excerpt).
“So far the most powerful human beings have still bowed worshipfully before the saint as the riddle of self-conquest and deliberate final renunciation. Why did they bow? They honored something in themselves when they honored the saint. It was the will to power.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §51 (edited excerpt).
Nietzsche’s Eternal Return
Why thinkers of every political persuasion keep finding inspiration in the philosopher.
By Alex Ross
It takes a strong philosopher to assume control of a preposition and propel it into a foreign language. That is what Friedrich Nietzsche did with the word über. In German, it can mean “over,” “beyond,” or “about.”
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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness – was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
Friedrich Nietzsche from Beyond Good & Evil.
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