Quotes About Overman

God is a feeble, emasculated non-God on a cross who can't even save himself. If he can't save himself, how can he save you? Give us Nietzsche's Superman any day. God is dead. Long live the Overman. The task is to get stronger and stronger, not weaker and weaker.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.

Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated? Behold, I teach you the overman: He is this lightning; he is this frenzy. – FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

Behold, I teach you the Overman! He is that lightning, he is that madness!

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

For Nietzsche, the overman does not have instrumental value for the maintenance of society: he is valuable in himself because he embodies the state of being that has the only ultimate value there is; and society is censured insofar as it insists on conformity and impedes his development (cf. G. IX 44).