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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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    The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached—and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    As regards the celebrated “struggle for life,” it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality—where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)