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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §5, trans. Thomas Common (1892)
A warning, just before he describes the last man, that creative power depends on inner disorder that a comfortable age will eliminate.
Citation: "I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §5, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q4)
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