There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part I, Reading and Writing (1883) Translated by Thomas Common
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- From the chapter Reading and Writing in Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1883.
- Why
- Zarathustra is speaking about why people love life.
What it means
Nietzsche grants that love is a little mad, then adds that the madness has a logic of its own.
It is a generous view of the irrational parts of us: they may know something reason does not.
Our reading of the passage cited above, not a quotation from a commentary.
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