What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that a resistance is overcome.
— Friedrich Nietzsche Modern

God is dead, existentialism

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The Antichrist

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1888

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Controversial

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm

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