WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg need for power – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Le Guin, Ursula K. -- The Lathe of Heaven, ch. 9 (1971) https://wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/17835/ https://wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/17835/#respond Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:03:09 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=17835 The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.


Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
The Lathe of Heaven, ch. 9 (1971)
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