Books Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If God wrote the New Testament, he knew surprisingly little Greek.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“into the depths of Scripture or researched a single Greek word. They simply taught what they knew. I don’t know any other”

— Beth Moore

“I was too shocked to register that he’d just cursed in Ancient Greek, and I’d understood him perfectly.”

— Rick Riordan

“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.”

— Kevin Kelly

“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”

— William Shakespeare

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

— Hergé

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to…

— Heinrich Schliemann

“Maybe he’d been speaking Greek, a word of which he knew fucking none, because what in the Zeus-fuck did she just say to him…”

— V. Theia

“How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.”

— Frank Herbert

“I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Not only did he have the body of a Greek fucking god, but his smile, his eyes, and his laugh lit my life.”

— Adriane Leigh