But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.
 Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891). copy citation

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Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Source Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic darkness evil man enlightenment tree
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

“But the wind, which we see not, troubleth and bendeth it as it listeth. We are sorest bent and troubled by invisible hands.»
Thereupon the youth arose disconcerted, and said: «I hear Zarathustra, and just now was I thinking of him!» Zarathustra answered:
«Why art thou frightened on that account?—But it is the same with man as with the tree.
The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.»
«Yea, into the evil!» cried the youth.” source

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