Life itself appears to me as an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power: whenever the will to power fails there … - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life itself appears to me as an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power: whenever the will to power fails there is disaster. My contention is that all the highest values of humanity have been emptied of this will — that the values of décadence, of nihilism, now prevail under the holiest names. 7. Christianity is called the religion of pity. — Pity stands in