'What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?' - so asks the last man, and blinks.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea; the last man lives longest.

'We have invented happiness,' - say the last men, and they blink. They have left the regions where it is hard to live; for they need warmth. One still loves one's neighbour and rubs against him; for one needs warmth.

Turning ill and being distrustful, they consider sinful: they walk warily. He is a fool who still stumbles over stones or men!

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And much poison at the end for a pleasant death.

One still works, for work is a form of entertainment. But one is careful lest the entertainment be too harrowing. One no longer becomes poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wants to rule? Who still wants to obey? Both are too burdensome.

No shepherd, and one herd! Everyone wants the same; everyone is the same: he who feels differently goes voluntarily into the madhouse.

'Formerly all the world was insane,' - say the subtlest of them, and they blink.

They are clever and know all that has happened: so there is no end to their derision. People still quarrel, but are soon reconciled - otherwise it upsets their stomachs.

They have their little pleasures for the day, and their little pleasures for the night, but they have a regard for health.

'We have invented happiness,' - say the last men, and they blink."

This quote speaks to Nietzsche's concept of the "last man," a hypothetical future human who has become complacent, satisfied with a mediocre existence devoid of passion, creativity, or struggle. Nietzsche believed that this type of person was antithetical to the human spirit, which he saw as striving for greatness and transcendence. The quote also emphasizes the importance of chaos and struggle as necessary ingredients for personal growth and the creation of something truly great.