You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §5 (1883)
Author
Friedrich Nietzsche
Verified lines from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols.
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Man is something that shall be overcome.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §3 (1883)
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 'Of the Spirit of Gravity' (1883)
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
Beyond Good and Evil, §146 (1886)
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Beyond Good and Evil, §146 (1886)
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows, §12 (1889)
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows, §33 (1889)