The Overman

Zarathustra’s image of the human being who has overcome the old values and creates new ones: a goal set beyond the present man.

From Friedrich Nietzsche.

In Symbols of the Psyche

  • Lightning: Sudden illumination, and sudden change.
  • The Ape: The human made animal, and the animal made human.
  • The Bridge: The way across what divides.

More from Friedrich Nietzsche

Apollo and Dionysus · The Death of God · Eternal Recurrence · Nihilism · The Revaluation of All Values · The Three Metamorphoses · The Will to Power