Übermensch.
i teach you the overman. man is something that shall be overcome. what have you done to overcome him?
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 laughing stock or a painful embarassment. you have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.
whoever is the wisest among you is a mere conflict and cross between plant and ghost. but do i bid you become ghosts or plants?
behold, i teach you the overman. the overman is the meaning of the earth. let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth. i beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes. poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.
- Friedrich Nietzche, in thus spoke zarathustra.
the ubermensch, loosely translated as the overman, supposedly refers to a group of humans that have transcended through time and have developed self-mastery and thus, have reached man's true potential. it sounds like a lofty ambition for humanity. but what if nietzche was right about it all along? that man is a state that we have to overcome. that what we are is merely an intermediate.
if this is all true, then humanity can be so much more. but what, or rather who are the ubermensch? what makes them so different from man as he is now? i wonder. and what does self-mastery mean? these are questions that i think few can answer. it is an encouraging thought, that man can surpass the limitations that hinder him and progress yet to another level.
but more thoughts only lead to more questions. and more questions, especially if left unanswered, lead to only more doubt and scepticism.
but doubt is but an action, just like hope.
we can choose either, or neither at all.
i've decided to choose hope; to hope that one day, we will become the ubermensch, superior beings in all ways. hopefully, in all the ways that are good.
on a random note, does anyone know where on earth can i get a copy of "thus spoke zarathustra"? does anyone out there have it or something? yes, the translated one.
i wird der ubermensch.
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 laughing stock or a painful embarassment. you have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.
whoever is the wisest among you is a mere conflict and cross between plant and ghost. but do i bid you become ghosts or plants?
behold, i teach you the overman. the overman is the meaning of the earth. let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth. i beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes. poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.
- Friedrich Nietzche, in thus spoke zarathustra.
the ubermensch, loosely translated as the overman, supposedly refers to a group of humans that have transcended through time and have developed self-mastery and thus, have reached man's true potential. it sounds like a lofty ambition for humanity. but what if nietzche was right about it all along? that man is a state that we have to overcome. that what we are is merely an intermediate.
if this is all true, then humanity can be so much more. but what, or rather who are the ubermensch? what makes them so different from man as he is now? i wonder. and what does self-mastery mean? these are questions that i think few can answer. it is an encouraging thought, that man can surpass the limitations that hinder him and progress yet to another level.
but more thoughts only lead to more questions. and more questions, especially if left unanswered, lead to only more doubt and scepticism.
but doubt is but an action, just like hope.
we can choose either, or neither at all.
i've decided to choose hope; to hope that one day, we will become the ubermensch, superior beings in all ways. hopefully, in all the ways that are good.
on a random note, does anyone know where on earth can i get a copy of "thus spoke zarathustra"? does anyone out there have it or something? yes, the translated one.
i wird der ubermensch.
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