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Quotation from The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is good?--Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man”

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist, §2, trans. H. L. Mencken (1920)

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Nietzsche opens the polemic with a compressed definition of value in terms of power.

Citation: "What is good?--Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, §2, trans. H. L. Mencken (1920). (id the-antichrist-q1)

Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.

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