Full Idea
Nietzsche thinks that the human condition is precisely to overcome itself; we continually remake ourselves.
Gist of Idea
Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself
Source
report of Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886]) by Keith Ansell Pearson - Interview with Baggini and Stangroom p.261
Book Reference
Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.261
A Reaction
This is why I think of Nietzsche as a straightforwardly existentialist philosopher. There is a crucial distinction between 'remaking' ourselves and 'realising all our possibilities'. The latter seems right. Which view did Nietzsche take?