I teach ye the Over-man. The man is something who shall be overcome.
What have ye done to overcome him?
All being before this made something beyond itself: and you will be
the ebb of this great flood, and rather go back to the beast than
overcome the man?
What is the ape to the man? A mockery or a painful shame. And even so
shall man be to the Over-man: a mockery or a painful shame.
Man is a cord, tied between Beast and Over-man--a cord above an abyss.
A perilous arriving, a perilous traveling, a perilous looking
backward, a perilous trembling and standing still.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge, and no goal; what can be
loved in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
I love them that know how to live, be it even as those going under,
for such are those going across.
I love them that are great in scorn, because these are they that are
great in reverence, and arrows of longing toward the other
shore!--_Nietzsche_.