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Writing Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- 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.
- Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
- Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
- Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
- Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
- It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
- A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
- It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it…
- Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need…
- I am one thing, my writings are another.
- one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
- All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
- The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
- Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions…
- Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
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