“ Better than man doth woman understand children, but man is more childish than woman. ”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891). copy citation
Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Source | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
Topic | understanding women |
Date | 1891 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated By Thomas Common |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm |
Context
“Man shall be trained for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Too sweet fruits—these the warrior liketh not. Therefore liketh he woman;—bitter is even the sweetest woman.
Better than man doth woman understand children, but man is more childish than woman.
In the true man there is a child hidden: it wanteth to play. Up then, ye women, and discover the child in man!
A plaything let woman be, pure and fine like the precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.”
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