| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42548 |
| QUOTATION: | It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves’ feet guide the world. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 189, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 146, trans. by Walter Kaufmann, New York, Penguin Books (1978). Zarathustra’s voiceless “stillest hour,” in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Second Part, “The Stillest Hour,” (1883). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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