„There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„If beings are grasped as will to power, the “should” which is supposed to hang suspended over them, against which they might be measured, becomes superfluous. If life itself is will to power, it is itself the ground, principium, of valuation. Then a “should” does not determine being. Being determines a “should.” “When we talk of values we are speaking under the inspiration or optics of life: life itself compels us to set up values; life itself values through us whenever we posit values.”“
— Martin Heidegger
„Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.“
— Joseph Campbell
„Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me“
— Walt Whitman
„Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.“
— Jim Butcher
„The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.“
— Henry Miller