I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
- Source
- Thus Spake Zarathustra, Prologue 5, trans. Thomas Common
- Written
- 1883
About this quotation
Zarathustra says it to the crowd in the marketplace, warning of a time when people will no longer create anything, which he calls the time of “the last man”. The Common translation dates from 1909; modern translations vary the wording slightly.