"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."
React to this quote
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
See allResonant Thoughts
"Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists and materialists would say. The Quality which creat…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehensio…"
— Edwin Boring"The Metamophosis of Ajax Online reading and multiple ebook formats at Ex-classics"
— John Harington (writer)"Bert Williams cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the Universit…"
— Bert Williams"One of our universities recently made a survey of the reading habits of the American public; it decided tha…"
— Randall Jarrell"I already said that fucking thing, you missed it. Where were you on that one, O'Keefe? Eyes on the prize. F…"
— Patrick Stump"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."
— Edith Sitwell