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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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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

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


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Quote source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Deutsches Textarchiv - Nietzsche, Friedrich - Also sprach Zarathustra (de) 



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.”

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Translation

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French
Celui qui un jour veut apprendre à voler, celui-là doit d'abord apprendre à se tenir debout et à marcher et à courir, à grimper et à danser - ce n'est pas du premier coup d'aile que l'on conquiert l’envol!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

German
Wer einst fliegen lernen will, der muss erst stehn und gehn und laufen und klettern und tanzen lernen: – man erfliegt das Fliegen nicht!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Also sprach Zarathustra



See also 

See also...



The higher we rise, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do – you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King Jr.



Quotes for: to learn


Quotes

Quotes for: to learn


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy / 





It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield / 





What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of History / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide / 





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.
Hermann Hesse / 






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Quotes for: dance


Quotes

Quotes for: dance


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety / 





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





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





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 - The Joyful Science / 





The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche also said...




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





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 / 





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / 





And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 







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