“I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.”
Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims
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Speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton (12 October 1978), quoted in The Times (13 October 1978), p. 6
1970s
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton (12 October 1978), quoted in The Times (13 October 1978), p. 6
1970s

“I shall endeavor to turn dross to purest Metal Absolute: in short, to teach you something.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 4, “Cricket Cage” (p. 41).

Against the Spiritual Estate of the Pope and the Bishops Falsely So Called, July 1522.
Luther's Works, Church and Ministry I, Eric W. Gritsch, Helmut T. Lehman eds., Concordia Publishing House, 1986, ISBN 0800603397, ISBN 9780800603397, vol. 39, p. 249. http://books.google.com/books?id=2YnYAAAAMAAJ&q=%22so+that+whoever+does+not+accept+my+teaching+may+not+be+saved%22&dq=%22so+that+whoever+does+not+accept+my+teaching+may+not+be+saved%22&hl=en&ei=9ow_TOntFoL78AbVqMW_Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA

“Teach it me, if you can,—forgetfulness!
I surely shall forget, if you can bid me;”
Love’s Last Lesson
The Golden Violet (1827)

"these men" refers to teachers and "the famous men of the ancients," p. 381
On Greek Literature