...society as a whole. In the beautiful symbolic language of Zarathustra : " Man is a connecting-rope between the animal and the superman — a rope over...dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous retrospecting, a dangerous trembling and halting. " What is great in man is that he is a bridge and...

...society as a whole. In the beautiful symbolic language of Zarathustra : " Man is a connecting-rope between the animal and the superman — a rope over...dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous retrospecting, a dangerous trembling and halting. " What is great in man is that he is a bridge and...

...merely a bridge to the superman of tomorrow. He is a bridge that has to be crossed. "Man," he said, "is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss." Man of today has to be sacrificed to the superman of tomorrow. To apply this axiom to the life we have...

...constitution (will to power, independence). Superman is first of all a great individual. Zarathustra says: Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the...rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing a dangerous way faring a dengerous looking back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is great in man is that...

...affirms the position taken.125 Such 123. I mean to evoke, without commitment to it, Nietzsche's aphorism: "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss." F. NIETZSCHE, THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA 9 (T. Common trans. 2d ed. 1911). 124. Mores Utopia, see T. MORE,...

...progress; the fact should not be mistaken. In his most poetic work, Thus Spake Zamthustra, Nietzsche wrote: "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping" (PN,...

...and uses their questions as opportunities for awakening. 127 From the: Heart . . . Nietzsche wrote: "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman - a rope over the abyss" (77i»s Spake Zamtlnistw, "Zarathustra's Prologue," p. 8). This saying feels to me much...

...dancer is walking across a rope stretched between two towers. "Rope", for Nietzsche, is a metaphor. "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss." '7 Something goes wrong, and the dancer falls into the abyss to his death. Zarathustra lifts him to...

...No individual exists for ever; why should we expect our species to be immortal? Man, said Nietzche, is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman — a rope across the abyss. That will be a noble purpose to have served." Here again there are echoes of Shavian...

...including The EvenTempered Angler. He lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Getting Hooked ROY ROWAN "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss. " FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Thus Spake Zarathustra Ayone who has never battled a bull...