Friedrich Nietzsche was my kind of guy. He stretched his definition of 'dance' like silly putty to consider matters philosophical, whimsical and practical. His thinking pre-dated psychological studies like this one .
Consider this collection...
"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "
"Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance."
"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
"Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul."
"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."
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
"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."
"At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me."
"Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing."
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
No wonder I feel like I'm in an altered state every time I'm on the dance floor.
Quotes like this are tossed about often, usually without knowledge of the man who coined them.
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
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