I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue 5
About Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher who wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Twilight of the Idols. (1844-1900)
More from Friedrich Nietzsche
- What does not kill me, makes me stronger.Twilight of the Idols (1889), Maxims and Arrows 8
- Without music, life would be a mistake.Twilight of the Idols (1889), Maxims and Arrows 33
- Only thoughts reached by walking have value.Twilight of the Idols (1889), Maxims and Arrows 34
- What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue 4, tr. Thomas Common
- Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 283
- Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Aphorism 94, tr. R. J. Hollingdale
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