Friedrich Nietzsche
“One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue §5 — tr. Thomas Common, 1909
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue §5 — tr. Thomas Common, 1909
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“One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star.”
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About this line
Nietzsche wrote Zarathustra in the middle of his own collapse — friendships gone, health failing — and out of it made a case for the chaos itself: it takes some in you to produce anything worth looking at.
Why we carry this line
Ever been called a shit disturber? Raise your hand. Mine’s up. You need some chaos in you to make anything that shines.
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