Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra, translated by M.A

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