Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Books

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crazy, Book, Reading

• We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Greek

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Office

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Facts, New Testament

• There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Book, Greek

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.24, e-artnow

• 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 in such stiff-necked fashion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Book, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.49, 谷月社

• Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Book, Reading

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Language, Worst

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Reading, Opponents

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.294, Courier Corporation

• 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!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Book, Reading

• 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 comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Independent, Intelligent

  Letter to Carl Fuchs, December 14, 1887.

• 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 admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Heart, Character

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

• 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 given him no access.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Ears

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• 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 both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Rising Up

• 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 swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Home, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.144, Vintage

• The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Ambition, Doe

  "Twilight of the Idols".

• 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 been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Blessed, Apology

• Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Hands, Would Be

• A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Grateful, Vices

• 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 profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Passion, Boredom

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Criticism

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

• In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Order

• 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 himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Hands, Shoes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.48, Penguin UK

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Opponents, Spirit

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