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).
