Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Flying
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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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.
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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.
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What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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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.
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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.
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