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. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at all, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance style, virtù, moraline-free virtue). The weak and ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one should help them to do it. What is more harmful than any vice? Active sympathy for the ill-constituted and weak — Christianity...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern
God is dead, existentialism