Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.

Der Mensch ist ein Seil, geknüpft zwischen Thier und Übermensch,-ein Seil über einem Abgrunde.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Nature of man The human condition

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

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Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Medium
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1892 1890s 19th century
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Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

The Interpretation of Dreams

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The Interpretation of Dreams
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Freud, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1900, ch. 7, sect. E.

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Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams, translated and edited by James Strachey. Basic Books, 2010, ch. 7, sect. E.