Individual lives would also repeat, of course, because everything repeats Therefore, in most religions, life as we know it is only important because of some afterlife that may exist With the eternal recurrence, the only experience we have is life We experience it the same way over and over agai

Antonyms for existential nonempirical, theoretical (also theoretic), unempirical

A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding

The concept of “eternal recurrence”––”the idea that all events in the world repeat themselves in the same sequence through an eternal series of cycles”––is central to the mature writings of Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche sums up his thought most succinctly when he addresses the reader with: “Everything has returned

Nietzsche is saying here that Will to Power is a force, which does not need another force to make it act When we look at a normal external force, we generally see it as a thing that makes an event happen For example, if someone opens a beer in my presence, they force me to have a drink with the

The will to power (German: der Wille zur Macht) is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans Alfred Adler incorporated the will to power into his individual psychology

New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power contains some of Nietzsche’s most fascinating and combative writings on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe With more than titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and discipline

But psychologists characterize willpower, or self-control, in more specific ways According to most psychological scientists, willpower can be defined as: The ability to delay gratification, resisting short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals Conscious, effortful regulation of the self by the self