Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

The line frames marriage not as a legal contract or romantic culmination but as an act of creative willing: two individuals deliberately aim to bring forth a “one” that exceeds them. Read in a Nietzschean key, this “one” can suggest a higher unity or project—most concretely a child, but also a shared work, lineage, or future-oriented form of life. The emphasis on will and creation aligns marriage with self-overcoming and the production of something stronger than its origins. It also implies a demanding standard: marriage is justified insofar as it serves a generative, elevating purpose rather than mere comfort, convention, or sentimentality.