"The drop of LIFE in the Universe is without significance for the total character of the tremendous ocean of Becoming and Passing-Away:That uncounted stars possess similar conditions for the production of life as the Earth does-very many thus do,though they constitute only a handful compared with the limitless number which have never experienced the eruption of life,or have long since recovered from it;that measured against the duration of their existence,life on each of these stars has been but a moment,a sudden flickering up,with long,long,spaces of time afterwards-and thus in no sense the goal and ultimate objective of their existence.Perhaps the ant in the forest imagines it is the goal and objective of the forest just as firmly as we do when in our imagination we almost involuntarily associate the destruction of mankind with the destruction of the Earth:indeed,we are being modest if we halt at that and do not organise a general 'twilight of the gods' and the universe for the funeral rites of the last man". [Nietzsche,'The Wanderer and his Shadow',14]

In the above we see that Nietzsche was not only ahead of his own time,but ahead of ours too.
How common it is,even today,to hear the nauseating cry of 'human life is sovereign'!