Meaning of will to power | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The vital energy in all living things which propels them to seek to grow, create, and thrive.
   uncountable
2. The forceful desire, especially in human beings, to aggressively overcome, conquer, and dominate others.
   uncountable

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Examples

“Yet the driving force of the whole process from humblest plant to possible superman is will to power, will not to be, but to be more.”

“But he had a certain acrid courage, and a certain will-to-power. In his own small circle he would emanate power, the single power of his own blind self.”

“By far the greater part of Mr. Johnson's book is concerned with precisely that, the will to power, as it has been made manifest since the end of World War I—first in Europe, then on a rising scale in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the United States.”

“By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism.”

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