Nietzsche's "Will to Power"

By: Rollo May

Art: Luigi Russolo

The phrase “will to power” means self-actualization. Nietzsche was protesting against the weak, anemic, European man he saw emerging on all sides.

The “will to power” is a call to man to avoid the putrescence and to affirm himself in his existence with strength and commitment.

The “will to power” is built into every individual because it is inseparable from life itself. “Wherever I found life,” writes Nietzsche, “there I found the will to power.”