Quote of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - One must still have chaos in...

Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Quote

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Translation

(German, French)

Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Also sprach Zarathustra

Il faut avoir du chaos en soi pour accoucher d'une étoile qui danse.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Quotes about chaos:

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.”
M. C. Escher

chaos

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.”
Wilhelm Reich

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Theodor W. Adorno

In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to.”
M. C. Escher

Quotes about star:

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci

star

A star shines on the hour of our meeting.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

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Quotes for: dance:

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.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche also said...

The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

Become who you are!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

to be

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.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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