Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Reading

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crazy, Book, Reading

• The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Reading, Troops

  "Human, All Too Human". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, II.137, 1878.

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Book, Reading

• 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

• One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bible, Religious, Reading

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.378, Penguin

• The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reading, Hands, People

• The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Reading, Paradox

• Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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