I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.
 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891). copy citation

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Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Source Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic running flying
Date 1891
Language English
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Note Translated By Thomas Common
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm

Context

“And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall.
Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!
I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.
Now am I light, now do I fly; now do I see myself under myself. Now there danceth a God in me.—
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA.
VIII. THE TREE ON THE HILL.
Zarathustra's eye had perceived that a certain youth avoided him.” source

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