Books Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This book is intended for calm readers.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How can any one become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third part of the day without passions,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter-…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“381 On the question of being understandable.— One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche