The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780141195360
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

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The ‘world of truth’, in whatever form it has thus far been conceived – was always the world of illusion all over again.

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‘Illusoriness’ = specific activity of action and reaction. The world of illusion is a world viewed under the aspect of values, arranged and selected according to values; i.e. in this case, according to the utilitarian standpoint with regard to the preservation and the increase of power in a certain species of animal.

It is this perspectival aspect, then, which furnishes the character of ‘illusoriness’. As if a world still remains, when the perspectival aspect has been subtracted! Thus relativity would have been subtracted, which . . .

Each centre of force has its own perspective on all the rest of them, i.e. its own entirely distinctive evaluations, its own kind of action, its own kind of resistance. The ‘world of illusion’ is thus reduced to a specific kind of action towards the world, emanating from a centre.

But there is no other kind of action; and ‘world’ is only a word for the totality of these actions. Reality consists precisely in the particular action and reaction of each individual against the whole . . .

We have not the slightest justification for speaking of illusion in this way . . .

Specific kinds of reactions are the only kind of reaction; we have no idea how many kinds there are, or what their nature may be.

But there is no ‘other’, no ‘real’, no essential being – for that would mean a world without action and reaction . . .

The contrast between the world of illusion and the world of truth reduces to the contrast between ‘world’ and ‘nothing’.

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