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In order to sustain the theory of a mechanistic world,
therefore, we always have to stipulate to what extent we are
employing two fictions: the concept of motion (taken from
our sense language) and the concept of the atom (=unity,
deriving from our psychical "experience"): the mechanistic
theory presupposes a sense prejudice and a psychological
prejudice...
The mechanistic world is imagined only as sight and touch
imagine a world (as "moved") --so as to be calculable-- thus
causal unities are invented, "things" (atoms) whose effect
remains constant (--transference of the false concept of
subject to the concept of the atom)...
If we eliminate these additions, no things remain but only
dynamic quanta, in a relation of tension to all other dynamic
quanta: their essence lies in their relation to all other quanta,
in their "effect" upon the same. The will to power is not a
being, not a becoming, but a pathos --the most elemental fact
from which a becoming and effecting first emerge--
from The Will to Power, s.635, Walter
Kaufmann transl.
My idea is that every specific body strives to become master
over all space and to extend its force (--its will to power:) and
to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it continually
encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies and
ends by coming to an arrangment ("union") with those of
them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire
together for power. And the process goes on--
from The Will to Power, s.636, Walter
Kaufmann transl.
[Anything which] is a living and not a dying body... will have
to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread,
seize, become predominant - not from any morality or
immorality but because it is living and because life simply is
will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of
what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of
the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
from Nietzsche's Beyond
Good and Evil, s.259, Walter
Kaufmann transl.