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Quotation from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
“A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength--life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof”
Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, §13, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906)
Against psychologists and Darwinians who make self-preservation the cardinal instinct.
Citation: "A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength--life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, §13, trans. Helen Zimmern (1906). (id beyond-good-and-evil-q3)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
