Man is something that is to be surpassed.
A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. You have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were you apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes. Even the wisest among you is only a disharmony and hybrid of plant and phantom. WHEN Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains.