Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Power

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Reality, Political

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Religion, World

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Pain, Struggle

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.294, Vintage

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Exercise, Power, Self

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1910). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The will to power”

• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

• I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Dynamite, Humans

• What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spring, Power, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Power, Men

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Evil, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hypocrite, Power

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

• Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Men, Habit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winning, Power, Giving

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Growth, Survival

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.37, Friederich Nietzsche

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Pride, Loss

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Lying, Power

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Rose, Germany

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Found, Creatures

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Degrees, Assuming

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Power, Masters

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Power, Doe

• 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").

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Goal, Suffering

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Facts, Instinct

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Resistance, Tendencies

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