"Someone who does not write books, who..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?”

“Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.”

“All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.”

“When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.”

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.”

“Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark of your own streams and oceans; [to] explore your own higher latitudes; [to] be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.”