Friedrich Nietzsche Smell Quotations

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.