Why I Am so Clever Quotes

“Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever

“The Circe of mankind, morality, has falsified all psychologica to its very foundations - has moralized it - to the point of the frightful absurdity that love is supposed to be 'unegoistic' . . . One has to be firmly set upon oneself, one has to stand bravely upon one's own two legs, otherwise, one can not love at all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever

“The most serious Christians have always been well disposed towards me. I myself, an opponent of Christianity - de rigueur, am far from bearing a grudge against the individual for what is the fatality of millennia.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever

“A god come to earth ought to do nothing whatever but wrong: to take upon oneself, not the punishment, but the guilt - only that would be godlike.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever

“over our sky no cloud ever passed”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever

“The scholar, who really does nothing but 'trundle' books [...] finally loses the ability to think for himself. [...] He replies to a stimulus (a thought he has read) when he thinks - finally he does nothing but react. [...] he himself no longer thinks. [...] 'read to ruins”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever