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Overman   Listen
noun
Overman  n.  (pl. overmen)  
1.
One in authority over others; a chief; usually, an overseer or boss.
2.
An arbiter.
3.
In the philosophy of Nietzsche, a man of superior physique and powers capable of dominating others; one fitted to survive in an egoistic struggle for the mastery.





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"Overman" Quotes from Famous Books



... time-spirit, Woman, to a thoughtful eye, sits like the Sphinx above the drifting sands, silent, secret, powerful and obscure, bent only on her great purposive errand whose end is the bringing forth of that Overman who shall rule the world. With her immense biologic mission, seemingly at war with her individual career, and destructive apparently of that emancipation which is the present dream of her champions, what a type, what a motive this for ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton


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