Variant: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Quotes from book
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Original title
Also sprach Zarathustra
,
Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
(German, 1883)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts written between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Übermensch, which were first introduced in The Gay Science.
“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Part I, Chapter 11, "Vom neuen Götzen" ("The New Idol"). Published in four parts between 1883 and 1891 Another translation: “But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.”
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“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
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
