You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes. Parerga and Paralipomena
A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army. Beware of Pity
Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. Book II
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