Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Writing

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Writing, Kids, Needs

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Writing, Thinking, Communicate

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Running, Writing, Thinking

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing, Tablets, Harvest

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.89, Penguin

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational, Writing, Mouths

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing, One Thing

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

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

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe, Writing, Thinking

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing, Age, Able

Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.51, Xist Publishing

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Writing, Thinking

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Writing, Men

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.38, Penguin

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship, Writing, Spirit

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing, Heart, Blood

Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Writing, Long

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Writing, Wish

Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Writing, Blood

"Thus Spake Zarathustra".

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

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing, Two, Knowing

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing, Blood, Spirit

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing, Equipment, Our Thoughts

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

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Writing

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