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Book Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
- A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
- If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book…
- So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly…
- Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
- It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
- Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!
- We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always…
- One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of…
- It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon…
- Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
- Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in…
- We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to…
- It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what…
- It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it…
- I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will…
- No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has…
- Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if…
- Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home…
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