Quotes About Transformation

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old affinity: One has to change to stay akin to me.

You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Why did you live so long in the swamp that you yourself had to become a frog and a toad?

I transform myself to fast: my today refutes my yesterday.

Back then you carried your ashes to the mountain; would you now carry your fire into the alley?

spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart

If someone wants to seem to be something, stubbornly and for a long time, he eventually finds it hard to be anything else. The profession of almost every man, even the artist, begins with hypocrisy, as he imitates from the outside, copies what is effective.

Error has turned animals into men; might truth be capable of turning man into an animal again?

You lonely of today, you withdrawing ones, one day you shall be a people: from you that have chosen yourselves a chosen people shall grow and from them the overman.

This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:- one does not fly into flying!

Re-create yourselves: and let this be your best creation.

The everlasting and exclusive coming-to-be, the impermanence of everything actual, which constantly acts and comes-to-be but never is, as Heraclitus teaches it, is a terrible, paralyzing thought. Its impact on men can most nearly be likened to the sensation during an earthquake when one loses one's familiar confidence in a firmly grounded earth. It takes astonishing strength to transform this reaction into its opposite, into sublimity and the feeling of blessed astonishment. (p.58)

For ten years you have climbed here to my cave: you would have become weary of shining and of the journey, had it not been for me, my eagle, and my serpent.

Altered is Zarathustra; a child hath Zarathustra become; an awakened one is Zarathustra: what wilt thou do in the land of the sleepers?

In this condition one enriches everything out of one's own abundance: what one sees, what one desires, one sees swollen, pressing, strong, over laden with energy. The man in this condition transforms things until they mirror his power - until they are reflections of his perfections

I must first go down deeper than ever I descended—deeper into pain than ever I descended, down into its blackest flood. Thus my destiny wants it….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

Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one

My wisdom consists in my having been many things and in many places in order to become one person—in order to be able to attain to one thing.

Revaluation of all values!

What do you believe in? — In this: that the weight of all things must be determined anew

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure." ? Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

This cup wants to become empty again, and Zarathustra wants to become human again.