Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug.

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

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.

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb to a divine supermanhood. The step from man towards superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth's evolution. There lies our destiny and the liberating key to our aspiring, but troubled and limited human existence — inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner Spirit and the logic of Nature's process.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.