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Posted by Nietzsche on the idea that 'man is the measure'orBill the mosquito on July 03, 19101 at 22:17:58:

the intellect..."is human, rather, and only its owner and producer gives it such importance, as if the world pivoted around it"
[both quotes from 'On truth and lie in the extra-moral sense]

In other words, what you call 'supra-human' is only so because we have instilled it with a false sense of importance.

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You don't seem to realise that the Superman will be a new SPECIES;as removed from man as the mosquito is from the ape and the ape is from man;therefore the Superman will have his own brand of truth.[I am no longer going to persue these nameless posts] {n/t} Bill 08:30:23 7/04/101 (4)
- the mosquito is different from from the ape which is different from man which is different from overman...they all have the same 'self-importance', and even if the overman were different, it would be because he would think he ISN'T the measure of things NT Amanda 19:28:59 7/04/101 (3)
  - to make it clear, "there is NOTHING IN NATURE...[that] cannot immediately be n up like a bag by a slight breath of this power of knowledge"...and as much as the overman is a different species, he is a species, and a part of nature,,, Friedrich Nietzsche (nt) 20:14:54 7/04/101 (2)
    - and to make it painfully clear, the "haughtiness which goes with knowledge...deceives [man] about the value of existence by carrying in itself the most flattering evaluation of knowledge itself. Its most universal effect is deception; but even its most particular effects have something of the same character"...and any 'knowledge' of the overman faces the same problem if it claims to have a capacity for objective and universal validation...but the overman knows better...you do not! Friedrich Nietzsche (nt) 20:21:48 7/04/101 (1)
      - Re: and to make it painfully clear, the "haughtiness which goes with knowledge...deceives [man] about the value of existence by carrying in itself the most flattering evaluation of knowledge itself. Its most universal effect is deception; but even its most particular effects have something of the same character"...and any 'knowledge' of the overman faces the same problem if it claims to have a capacity for objective and universal validation...but the overman knows better...you do not! habo 00:43:22 11/12/101 (0)

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