Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all.
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 laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment_ (_) Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman__ rope over an abyss_ What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under_
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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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 laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment_ (_) Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman__ rope over an abyss_ What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under_
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