| These obstacles can be physical barriers, colleagues, friends or family members | Nietzsche believed that when these systems fall, nihilism sets in |
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| What drives us to flourish? Nietzsche describes three types of psychological nihilism in his notes used for The Will to Power | Every day we meet obstacles to our desires |
But the idea of a will to life did not seem to satisfy Nietzsche and the younger philosopher started to develop his own idea of a driving force behind change.
8| The second kind is lack of unity: When we have believed in a system, unity or organisation of the world that is no longer believed in | If we do not harness the will to power for the purposes of our own self-mastery, we could be caught in a web of power that is far beyond our own control |
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| Often we are not even aware of these impulses | The will to power when harnessed properly is more about growth and creativity than it is about domination and brutality |
Parmenides born circa 515 BCE believed that change is an illusion, that all things are one and the same.
14| The point of the Overman, it seems, was to present a spiritual ideal that is opposed to the common ideals of moral virtue | For Nietzsche, justice and equality are founded on envy |
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| From single cell organisms and plants to animals, all living things find themselves in a struggle for survival | Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star |
Above all, a living thing wants to discharge its strength — life itself is will to power: self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most infrequent consequences of this.
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