Perhaps we pursue power because we know, however dimly, that we are mortal. Wealth fades. Beauty fades. Relationships end. Even memory disappears. Power can feel like a temporary escape from this truth, an illusion that we stand above time itself.
โTo seek power is in a sense to declareโ
Friedrich Nietzsche argued that beneath every human action lies a will to power, not merely the desire to dominate, but the urge to expand oneself, to create, to overcome weakness, and to transform one's existence.