"Superman is qualitatively, not quantitatively, different from 
existing man. The thing that the superman discards is precisely our 
boundless, purely quantitative nonstop progress. The superman is poorer,
 simpler, tenderer and tougher, quieter and more self-sacrificing and 
slower of decision, and more economical of speech."
 Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking? (trans. by J. Glenn Gray)
