Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you:... - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child."
More quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you."
"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
"All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…"
"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."
"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."