Nietzsche said that man was a transition, suspended precari…
Nietzsche said that man was a transition, suspended precari ously on a rope between two ledges, with beasts behind us and something greater in front of us. His life's work was dedicated to figuring out what that something greater might be and then pointing us toward it.
— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)
In the book
To be an idealist, rightly understood, is to be a realist in the deepest sense — to stay true to what you and the world could actually become. Nietzsche pictured the human being as a rope stretched over an abyss, a creature always in transition, never finished, always on the way to something higher. And without a clear sense of where you are headed, you will scatter your one tank of energy across a hundred small fires and call the smoke a life. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)