John Mearsheimer on power

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• What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2

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• What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2

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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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