Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Power
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
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In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
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Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
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