Overman

The father was faithful and grateful: the son knows no law but his own humor; detests the ugly dwarf who has nursed him; chafes furiously under his claims for some return for his tender care; and is, in short, a totally unmoral person, a born anarchist, the ideal of Bakoonin, an anticipation of the "overman" of ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

He created the concept of "overman," the man stronger than others with the right to step over the weak, which attracted Hitler. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He often summons the image of a bridge, as he does here in his perhaps most definitive passage about the Overman: There it was too that I picked up the word "overman" by the way, and that man is something that must be overcome-that man is a bridge and no end: proclaiming himself blessed in view of his noon and evening, as the way to new dawns-Zarathustra's word of the great noon, and whatever else I hung up over man like the last crimson light of evening. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2005)

Essentially, his model offers us five types of hero we could label god, demigod, overman, everyman, nobody. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

What we begin to see here is not a simple schema of relative social status — overman, everyman or nobody — but rather a set of protagonist types defineable by the interrelations of the deontic modalities that act upon them and the boulomaic modalities they enact. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

The protagonist of legend can be seen as, relatively speaking, the overman of high mimetic or everyman of low mimetic, while the protagonists of gothic/horror may be seen as, again relatively speaking, everyman of low mimetic or nobody of ironic. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

This was the dark reign of the overman, in whose speech the great mass of the people were characterized as the "herd animals." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Superman was written to counter the Nazi idea of the "superman/overman" from Nietzche. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A creature of idyll and elegy, he's defined by his youth (and loss (like Daphnis)) -- a puer aeternus who can't be a conventional tragic hero in the overman sense because he's not yet reached the age where he * gets* the deontic modalities society would wrap him up in. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

From internal evidence the narrative was not reduced to writing until the 29th century because, the eponymous editor says, in the "age of the overman" all literacy was stamped out in a time when it was a capital offense "for any man, no matter of what class, to teach even the alphabet to a member of the working-class." ❋ Unknown (2008)

If Doc Jensen is serious about his theory that pits Nihilism agaist Theism, then the conception and birth of a child outside of the “sight” of God would bring about the “overman”. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nietzsche spoke of the superman or overman, which was the part of the personality that could transcend a nihilistic or fatalistic perspective...both "super" and "over" meaning...to be ABOVE. to rise above. ❋ Floreta (2009)

I think TSZ might actually be a better book subbing “overdog” for “overman.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The overman dug a hole in his palmubra with his shaking fingers. ❋ Glenda Larke (2009)

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss…. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Garth, an overman non-human, was sent on a quest by the Forgotten King to retrieve the first living thing he encountered in the tombs of Mormoreth. ❋ Jeff C (2008)