Quotes About Transformation

You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love.

the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….I doubt that such pain makes us 'better'; but I know that it makes us more profound.

Creating—that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. Yea, much bitter dying must there be in your life, ye creators! Thus are ye advocates and justifiers of all perishableness. For the creator himself to be the new-born child, he must also be willing to be the child-bearer, and endure the pangs of the child-bearer.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Creation-that is the great redemption from suffering, and life's growing light. But that the creator may be, much suffering is needed and much change. Indeed, there must be much bitter dying in your life, you creators

Man muß noch Kaos in sich haben um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können

He who fights monster should beware, lest he become a monster himself

All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils, angels.

Whence come the highest mountains? I once asked. Then I learned that they came out of the sea. The evidence is written in their rocks and in the walls of their peaks. It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height.

How changed Zarathustra is! Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one. What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

That which is ready to fall, shall ye also push!

The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.

What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.

And only where there are graves are there resurrections.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.—Nietzsche.