Power Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?…

— Friedrich Nietzsche