All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man?
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. — Zarathustra
Then it wouldn't be a superman. It would be a supercomputer as opposed to just computers, which is what you are using right now.It's most likely that the superman will be a computer. — Bird-Up
Then it wouldn't be a superman. — Harry Hindu
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. — Zarathustra
There remains something fundamentally egregious in Nietzsche. — Banno
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
The hour when ye say: “What good is my happiness! It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself!”
The hour when ye say: “What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!”
The hour when ye say: “What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!”
The hour when ye say: “What good is my justice! I do not see that I am fervour and fuel. The just, however, are fervour and fuel!”
The hour when ye say: “What good is my pity! Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loveth man? But my pity is not a crucifixion.”
Have ye ever spoken thus? Have ye ever cried thus? Ah! would that I had heard you crying thus!
It is not your sin—it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven!
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which ye should be inoculated?
Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that lightning, he is that frenzy!— — Zarathustra
Do you think Jane Goodall would agree? — Banno
Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Zarathustra
wholly and solely by the will to power. — Wayfarer
Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Even the wisest among you is only a disharmony and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I bid you become phantoms or plants?
Lo, I teach you the Superman!
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman SHALL BE the meaning of the earth!
I conjure you, my brethren, REMAIN TRUE TO THE EARTH... — Zarathustra
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. And one should help them to it.
What is more harmful than any vice?—Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak— — Nietzsche - The Antichrist
What would be more impressive, a dog being a dog or a dog trying to transcend, resist, its doggyness? — Agent Smith
"The book proposed a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of natural selection, suggesting that evolution is motivated by the élan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse." — Wiki on Bergson's Creative Evolution
He saw evolution as comprising four laws:[12][13]
"Life by its own force, tends to increase the volume of all organs which possess the force of life, and the force of life extends the dimensions of those parts up to an extent that those parts bring to themselves;"
"The production of a new organ in an animal body, results from a new requirement arising. and which continues to make itself felt, and a new movement which that requirement gives birth to, and its upkeep/maintenance;"
"The development of the organs, and their ability, are constantly a result of the use of those organs."
"All that has been acquired, traced, or changed, in the physiology of individuals, during their life, is conserved through the genesis, reproduction, and transmitted to new individuals who are related to those who have undergone those changes." — Wiki on Lamarck
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. — John the Revelator
Self-Overcoming — ZzzoneiroCosm
To deny/reject is a bigger deal than to indulge in it. — Agent Smith
But that, it could be argued, is just another form of self-overcoming. What do you think? — Merkwurdichliebe
The will to evolutionary ascent. — ZzzoneiroCosm
was it you I was talking to about Afrikan Spir's book? — Wayfarer
Neitzsche's mistake was failing to appreciate that the tribal life of proto humans would naturally promote a moral sense; a sensitivity to moral implication ingrained into the psyche, akin to humour or the aesthetic sense — karl stone
... even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Zarathustra
we all desire it — Agent Smith
That’s not how I read it. — Xtrix
It's a question of evolution: from ape to man to Superman. — ZzzoneiroCosm
Nope, never heard of it. Is it a good one?
I miss the Na'vi - did you design your new avatar? Pretty sweet. — ZzzoneiroCosm
The human being as a species does not represent any progress compared with any other animal. The whole animal and vegetable kingdom does not evolve from the lower to the higher—but all at the same time, in utter disorder, over and against each other.
Never understand the pull of Nietszche — Wayfarer
Get involved in philosophical discussions about knowledge, truth, language, consciousness, science, politics, religion, logic and mathematics, art, history, and lots more. No ads, no clutter, and very little agreement — just fascinating conversations.