... will to power and one could also find in it the solution of the problem of procreation and nourishment—it is one problem—then one would have gained the right to determine all efficient force univocally as —will to power. The world viewed from inside, the world defined and determined according to its "intelligible character"—it would be "will to power...

A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms - in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people...

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Page 173 - Let us articulate this new demand: we need a critique of moral values, the value of these values themselves must first be called in question... Appears in 58 books from 1931-2007

Page 226 - I will tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? Appears in 167 books from 1933-2008

Page 37 This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more... Appears in 69 books from 1917-2008

Page 159 - There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity, Appears in 134 books from 1974-2008

Page 206 - ... (the atom, for example, is such a changeling, as is the Kantian 'thing-in-itself '); no wonder if the submerged, darkly glowering emotions of vengefulness and hatred exploit this belief for their own ends and in fact maintain no belief more ardently than the belief that the strong man is free to be weak and the bird of prey to be a lamb - for thus they gain the right to make the bird of prey accountable for being a bird of prey. Appears in 27 books from 1974-2007

Page 183 - I mistrust all systematizers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. Appears in 59 books from 1955-2008

Page 216 - Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir... Appears in 99 books from 1966-2007

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