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The Will to Power

The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche Original title Der Wille zur Macht (German)

The Will to Power is a book of notes drawn from the literary remains of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast . The title derived from a work that Nietzsche himself had considered writing. The work was first translated into English by Anthony M. Ludovici in 1910, and it has since seen several other translations and publications.


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“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
The Will to Power (1888)

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“Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions … I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.”

Sec. 685 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.95-7, KSA 13.303-5)
The Will to Power (1888)

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“A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."”

Sec. 332 (Notebook W II 3. November 1887 - March 1888, KGW VIII, 2.304, KSA 13.62)
The Will to Power (1888)

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“No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”

Sec. 624, as translated by Tobias Dantzig in Number, the Language of Science. Fourth edition, New York: Doubleday 1954, p 141. See discussion of this entry for details.
The Will to Power (1888)

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“This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence.”

Sec. 6 (Notebook W II 2. Autumn 1887, KGW VIII, 2.237, KSA 12.571 [citations are to Nietzsche's manuscripts by archival code, and the page numbers in which the entire section can be found transcribed therefrom, in the hardcover and softcover historical-critical editions]).
The Will to Power (1888)

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“My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.”

Source: The Will to Power

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