Quotes About Evolution

You lonely of today, you withdrawing ones, one day you shall be a people: from you that have chosen yourselves a chosen people shall grow and from them the overman.

Re-create yourselves: and let this be your best creation.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.

To fight upward out of that chaos to this form requires a compulsion: one must be faced with the choice of perishing or prevailing. A dominating race can grow up only out of terrible and violent beginnings.

My wisdom consists in my having been many things and in many places in order to become one person—in order to be able to attain to one thing.

People who go through many spiritual changes retain some views and habits from earlier stages, which then jut out into their new thinking and acting like a bit of inexplicable antiquity and gray stonework, often ornamenting the whole region.

I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

That the world is not striving toward a stable condition is the only thing that has been proved. Consequently, one must conceive its climatic conditions in such a way that it is not a condition of equilibrium.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal

We have stopped deriving humanity from 'spirit', from 'divinity', we have stuck human beings back among the animals. We see them as the strongest animals because they are the most cunning: one consequence of this is their spirituality.

All that is good is inherited: whatever is not inherited is imperfect, is a mere beginning.

Life that means for us to transform constantly into light and flame all that we are, or meet with.

A people is nature's roundabout way of getting six or seven great men. – Yes: and then of getting around them.

What surprises me most when surveying the great destinies of man is always seeing before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school see or want to see today: selection in favor of the stronger, in favor of those who have come off better, the progress of the species. The very opposite is quite palpably the case: the elimination of the strokes of luck, the uselessness of the better-constituted types, the inevitable domination achieved by the average, even below-average types.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Two thousand years have come and gone—and not a single new god!

Every series of evolutions, according to them, was presided over by a prophet; and every prophet had his 'Hazar,'—his dynasty of a thousand years. All

I am of today and of the has-been (he said then); but there is something in me that is of tomorrow and of the day-after-tomorrow and of the shall-be.

Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape.

There are so many futures still to dawn!

It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height

O my friends! Thus speaketh the discerning one: shame, shame, shame—that is the history of man!