“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
Variant: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Friedrich Nietzsche655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) Novelist, short story writer, teacher
Response after being asked "Do you regard yourself as a religious person?", in an interview with Religion & Ethics Newsweekly http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2011/02/18/february-18-2011-ernest-gaines/8169/, February 18, 2011
“Only God knows how much I love you.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Harry Reid (1939) American politician
Source: "Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance", All Things Considered, NPR (18 May 2010) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126905578
“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variant: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
