“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…”

“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves”

“You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.”

“What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.”

“Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome”

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.”