“There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.”
Book 1, sec. 55 (10 June 1887) http://nietzsche.holtof.com/Nietzsche_the_will_to_power/the_will_to_power_book_I.htm <br class="br">The Will to Power (1888)
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