Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
What has greatness must be spoken of with greatness, cynically and without shame, or not at all. (Location 328)
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What is the significance of nihilism? – that the highest values devalue themselves. (Location 383)
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‘The greater good demands the surrender of the individual . . .’ but lo and behold, there is no greater good! In essence, man loses all belief in his own worth if there is no whole of infinite worth encompassing him, no power working through him; or, to put it differently, he conceived of such a whole in order to prop up his own sense of self-worth. (Location 440)
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It remains man’s supreme naïveté to regard himself as the meaning and measure of all things. (Location 465)
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I teach that one must say ‘no’ to everything that weakens and exhausts. I teach that one must say ‘yes’ to everything that strengthens, promotes the accumulation of power and [increases] pride. (Location 833)
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