Quotes & Sayings About Dance Nietzsche

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet
stand also on your heads! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Suppose a human being has thus put his ear, as it were, to the heart chamber of the world will and felt the roaring desire for existence pouring from there into all the veins of the world, as a thundering current or as the gentlest brook, dissolving into a mist - how could he fail to break suddenly? How could he endure to perceive the echo of innumerable shouts of pleasure and woe in the "wide space of the world night," enclosed in the wretched glass capsule of the human individual, without inexorably fleeing toward his primordial home, as he hears this shepherd's dance of metaphysics? But if such a work could nevertheless be perceived as a whole, without denial of individual existence; if such a creation could be created without smashing its creator - whence do we take the solution of such a contradiction? — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would only believe in a God that wold know how to dance. — Fredrich Nietzsche

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would only believe in a god who knew how to dance. And — Friedrich Nietzsche

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I could only believe in a God who could dance ... And now a God dances through me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is no doubt possible to fly
but first you must know how to dance like an angel. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And he will also find the little god whom girls like best: beside the well he lies, still, with his eyes shut. Verily, in bright daylight he fell asleep, the sluggard! Did he chase after the butterflies too much? ... He may cry and weep - but he is laughable even when he weeps. And with tears in his eyes he shall ask you for a dance and I myself will sing a song for his dance: a dancing and mocking song on the spirit of gravity ... (p.108 - The Dancing Song) — Friedrich Nietzsche

The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food. — Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic? — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would only believe in a god who could dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write — Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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 Nietzsche

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing ... his very gestures express enchantment. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer
to DANCE on the feet of chance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall.
Not by wrath, but by laughter do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!
I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.
Now I am light, now do I fly; now do I see myself under myself. Now there danceth a God in me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! — Friedrich Nietzsche

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And even to me, one who likes life, it seems butterflies and soap bubbles and whatever is of their kind among human beings know most about happiness.
To see these light, foolish, delicate, sensitive little souls fluttering
that seduces Zarathustra to tears and songs.
I would only believe in a god who knew how to dance.
And when I saw my devil, there I found him earnest, thorough, deep, somber; it was the spirit of gravity
through him all things fall.
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughing. Up, let us kill the spirit of gravity! — Friedrich Nietzsche

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. — Isadora Duncan

I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Music requires a particular type of education which is simply not given to most people. And, as a result, it's set further apart. It has a special place. People who are familiar with painting and photography and drama and dance, and so on, cannot talk so easily about music. And yet, as Nietzsche writes in The Birth of Tragedy, music is potentially the most accessible art form because, with the Apollonian and the Dionysian coming together, it makes a — Edward W. Said

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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 Nietzsche