Quotes from Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
1844–1900 Germany
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They are not clean enough for me, either: they all disturb their waters so that they may seem deep.
Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution—it is called pregnancy.
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Man is for woman a means; the end is always the child.
Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood.
I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance.
Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent—thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
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