If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
In the original German
Wollt ihr hoch hinaus, so braucht die eignen Beine! Lasst euch nicht empor tragen, setzt euch nicht auf fremde Rücken und Köpfe!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 4.
Original citation
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1885, pt. 4.