"A book is made better by good..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.”

“All great men are play actors of their own ideal.”

“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.”

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

“I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods," about the Appalachian Trail, but his most amazing book is "A Short History of Nearly Everything."”

“The student is to read history actively and not passively.”

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

“Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.”