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
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
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
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
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
“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
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone… — 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… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The progress of science has been amazingly rapid in the last decade; but consider the savants, those exhausted hens. They are certainly… — 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
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
“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
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. — 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
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
“The fool interrupts — The writer of this book is no misanthrope; today one pays too dearly for hatred of man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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
![“The progress of science has been amazingly rapid in the last decade; but consider the savants, those exhausted hens. They are certainly not “harmonious” natures: they can merely cackle more than before, because they lay eggs oftener: but the eggs are always smaller, [Pg 64] though their books are…” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ea/friedrich-nietzsche-15_books_the-progress-of-science-has-been-amazing_2820930.jpg)
