Quotes About Übermensch

He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and "the Singularity's chosen avatar

I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves. *** Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.

Zouch was a superman. A fair English equivalent of the Teutonic ideal of the Übermensch . No one knew this yet except himself. That was because he had not been one long enough for people to find out. They would learn all in good time; and to their cost.

He posited that a new kind of man—the Übermensch (the higher person or superman)—would be necessary in the aftermath of the death of God, so that society would not drift toward the opposing rocky shoals of despair and oversystematized political theorizing.

No greater affirmation of life is possible than to wish every part of it to return to you forever. It is the sublime moment when a person can look at his life, no matter what it consists of – good, bad, or indifferent – and find within himself the desire never to be freed from any aspect of it that allows a human being to be transformed into an Übermensch, the supreme life affirmer.

Authentic atheism is a blank page; Gnostic atheism hides a text written in invisible ink. The Ãœbermensch is the recourse of a nonconformist atheism. Nietzsche invents a human consolation for the death of God; Gnostic atheism, on the other hand, proclaims the divinity of man.