8 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Literature

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes on literature

4. 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.

48. 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.

49. A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

71. Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

84. There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

121. Und wer von uns Dichtern hatte nicht seinen Wein verfalscht? Manch giftiger Mischmasch geschah in unsern Kellern, manches Unbeschreibliche ward da getan.

155. Plato ist langweilig

163. It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book - what everyone else does not say in a whole book.