Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Flying

• 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

  Inspirational, Moving On, Dance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.188, Penguin

• The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivation, Flying High, Aviation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Flying, Want

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Climbing, Flying

• 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

  Dancing, Dancer, Flying

• It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Angel, Dancing, Dancer

• 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!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Air, Water

• Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Flying

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Rose, Flying

• 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

  Song, Men, Air

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Curves, Light

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