Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Interpreting myself, I always read Myself into my books. I clearly need Some help. But all who climb on their own way… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One should only speak where one cannot remain silent, and only speak of what one has conquered —the rest is all chatter,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter-… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How can any one become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third part of the day without passions,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
