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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Abbreviations
Contents
Translator’s Introduction
Nietzsche’s Preface for the Second Edition
“Joke, Cunning, and Revenge”: Prelude in German Rhymes
1. Invitation,
2. My Happiness,
3. Undaunted,
4. Dialogue,
5. To the Virtuous,
6. Worldly Wisdom,
7. Vademecum—Vadetecum,
8. Shedding the Third Skin,
9. My Roses,
10. Scorn,
11. The Proverb Speaks,
12. To a Light-Lover,
13. For Dancers,
14. The Good Man,
15. Rust,
16. Up,
17. The Maxim of the Brute,
18. Narrow Souls,
19. The Involuntary Seducer,
20. For your Consideration,
21. Against Airs,
22. Man and Woman,
23. Interpretation,
24. Medicine for Pessimists,
25. Request,
26. My Hardness,
27. The Wanderer,
28. Consolation for Beginners,
29. The Egoism of the Stars,
30. The Neighbor,
31. The Disguised Saint,
32. The Unfree Man,
33. The Solitary,
34. Seneca et hoc genus omne,
35. Ice,
36. Juvenilia,
37. Caution,
38. The Pious Retort,
39. In the Summer,
40. Without Envy,
41. Heraclitean,
42. Principle of the Overly Refined,
43. Admonition,
44. The Thorough Who Get to the Bottom of Things,
45. Forever,
46. Judgments of the Weary,
47. Decline,
48. Against the Laws,
49. The Sage Speaks,
50. Lost His Head,
51. Pious Wishes,
52. Writing with One’s Feet,
53. Human, All Too Human: A Book,
54. To My Reader,
55. Realistic Painters,
56. Poet’s Vanity,
57. Choosy Taste,
58. A Crooked Nose,
59. The Pen is Stubborn,
60. Higher Men,
61. The Skeptic Speaks,
62. Ecce Homo,
63. Star Morals,
Book One
1. The teachers of the purpose of existence,
2. The intellectual conscience,
3. Noble and common,
4. What preserves the species,
5. Unconditional duties,
6. Loss of dignity,
7. Something for the industrious,
8. Unconscious virtues,
9. Our eruptions,
10. A kind of atavism,
11. Consciousness,
12. On the aim of science,
13. On the doctrine of the feeling of power,
14. The things people call love,
15. From a distance,
16. Over the footbridge,
17. Finding motives for our poverty,
18. The pride of classical antiquity,
19. Evil,
20. The dignity of folly,
21. To the teachers of selfishness,
22. L’ordre du jour pour le roi,
23. The signs of corruption,
24. Diverse dissatisfaction,
25. Not predestined for knowledge,
26. What is life?
27. The man of renunciation,
28. To be harmful with what is best in us,
29. Add lies,
30. The comedy played by the famous,
31. Trade and nobility,
32. Undesirable disciples,
33. Outside the lecture hall,
34. Historia abscondita,
35. Heresy and witchcraft,
36. Last words,
37. Owing to three errors,
38. The explosive ones,
39. Changed taste,
40. On the lack of noble manners,
41. Against remorse,
42. Work and boredom,
43. What laws betray,
44. Supposed motives,
45. Epicurus,
46. Our amazement,
47. On the suppression of the passions,
48. Knowledge of misery,
49. Magnanimity and related matters,
50. The argument of growing solitude,
51. Truthfulness,
52. What others know about us,
53. Where the good begins,
54. The consciousness of appearance,
55. The ultimate noblemindedness,
56. The craving for suffering,
Book Two
57. To the realists,
58. Only as creators!
59. We artists,
60. Women and their action at a distance,
61. In honor of friendship,
62. Love,
63. Woman in music,
64. Skeptics,
65. Devotion,
66. The strength of the weak,
67. Simulating—oneself,
68. Will and willingness,
69. Capacity for revenge,
70. Women who master the masters,
71. On female chastity,
72. Mothers,
73. Holy cruelty,
74. Failures,
75. The third sex,
76. The greatest danger,
77. The animal with a good conscience,
78. What should win our gratitude,
79. The attraction of imperfection,
80. Art and nature,
81. Greek taste,
82. Esprit as un-Greek,
83. Translations,
84. On the origin of poetry,
85. The good and the beautiful,
86. Of the theater,
87. Of the vanity of artists,
88. Being serious about truth,
89. Now and formerly,
90. Lights and shadows,
91. Caution,
92. Prose and poetry,
93. But why do you write?
94. Growth after death,
95. Chamfort,
96. Two speakers,
97. Of the garrulousness of writers,
98. In praise of Shakespeare,
99. Schopenhauer’s followers,
100. Learning to pay homage,
101. Voltaire,
102. A remark for philologists,
103. Of German music,
104. Of the sound of the German language,
105. The Germans as artists,
106. Music as an advocate,
107. Our ultimate gratitude to art,
Book Three
108. New struggles,
109. Let us beware,
110. Origin of knowledge,
111. Origin of the logical,
112. Cause and effect,
113. On the doctrine of poisons,
114. How far the moral sphere extends,
115. The four errors,
116. Herd instinct,
117. Herd remorse,
118. Benevolence,
119. No altruism!
120. Health of the soul,
121. Life no argument,
122. Moral skepticism in Christianity,
123. Knowledge as more than a mere means,
124. In the horizon of the infinite,
125. The madman,
126. Mystical explanations,
127. Aftereffects of the most ancient religiosity,
128. The value of prayer,
129. The conditions for God,
130. A dangerous resolve,
131. Christianity and suicide,
132. Against Christianity,
133. Principle,
134. Pessimists as victims,
135. Origin of sin,
136. The chosen people,
137. Speaking in a parable,
138. Christ’s error,
139. The color of the passions,
140. Too Jewish,
141. Too Oriental,
142. Frankincense,
143. The greatest advantage of polytheism,
144. Religious wars,
145. Danger for vegetarians,
146. German hopes,
147. Question and answer,
148. Where reformations occur,
149. The failure of reformations,
150. On the critique of saints,
151. Of the origin of religion,
152. The greatest change,
153. Homo poeta,
154. Different types of dangerous lives,
155. What we lack,
156. Who is most influential,
157. Mentiri,
158. An inconvenient trait,
159. Every virtue has its age,
160. Dealing with virtues,
161. To those who love the age,
162. Egoism,
163. After a great victory,
164. Those who seek rest,
165. The happiness of those who have renounced something,
166. Always in our own company,
167. Misanthropy and love,
168. Of a sick man,
169. Open enemies,
170. With the crowd,
171. Fame,
172. Spoiling the taste,
173. Being profound and seeming profound,
174. Apart,
175. Of eloquence,
176. Pity,
177. On “the educational establishment,”
178. On moral enlightenment,
179. Thoughts,
180. A good age for free spirits,
181. Following and walking ahead,
182. In solitude,
183. The music of the best future,
184. Justice,
185. Poor,
186. Bad conscience,
187. Offensive presentation,
188. Work,
189. The thinker,
190. Against those who praise,
191. Against many a defense,
192. The good-natured,
193. Kant’s joke,
194. The “openhearted,”
195. Laughable,
196. Limits of our hearing,
197. Better watch out!
198. Chagrin of the proud,
199. Liberality,
200. Laughter,
201. Applause,
202. A squanderer,
203. Hic niger est,
204. Beggars and courtesy,
205. Need,
206. When it rains,
207. The envious,
208. Great man,
209. One way of asking for reasons,
210. Moderation in industriousness,
211. Secret enemies,
212. Not to be deceived,
213. The way to happiness,
214. Faith makes blessed,
215. Ideal and material,
216. Danger in the voice,
217. Cause and effect,
218. My antipathy,
219. The purpose of punishment,
220. Sacrifice,
221. Consideration,
222. Poet and liar,
223. Vicarious senses,
224. Animals as critics,
225. The natural,
226. Mistrust and style,
227. Bad reasoning, bad shot,
228. Against mediators,
229. Obstinacy and faithfulness,
230. Dearth of silence,
231. The “thorough,”
232. Dreams,
233. The most dangerous point of view,
234. A musician’s comfort,
235. Spirit and character,
236. To move the crowd,
237. Polite,
238. Without envy,
239. Joyless,
240. At the sea,
241. Work and artist,
242. Suum cuique,
243. Origin of “good” and “bad,”
244. Thoughts and words,
245. Praise by choice,
246. Mathematics,
247. Habit,
248. Books,
249. The sigh of the search for knowledge,
250. Guilt,
251. Misunderstood sufferers,
252. Better a debtor,
253. Always at home,
254. Against embarrassment,
255. Imitators,
256. Skin-coveredness,
257. From experience,
258. The denial of chance,
259. From paradise,
260. Multiplication table,
261. Originality,
262. Sub specie aeterni,
263. Without vanity,
264. What we do,
265. Ultimate skepsis,
266. Where cruelty is needed,
267. With a great goal,
268. What makes one heroic?
269. In what do you believe?
270. What does your conscience say?
271. Where are your greatest dangers?
272. What do you love in others?
273. Whom do you call bad?
274. What do you consider most humane?
275. What is the seal of liberation?
Book Four: Sanctus Januarius
276. For the new year,
277. Personal providence,
278. The thought of death,
279. Star friendship,
280. Architecture for the search for knowledge,
281. Knowing how to end,
282. Gait,
283. Preparatory human beings,
284. Faith in oneself,
285. Excelsior,
286. Interruption,
287. Delight in blindness,
288. Elevated moods,
289. Embark!
290. One thing is needful,
291. Genoa,
292. To those who preach morals,
293. Our air,
294. Against the slanderers of nature,
295. Brief habits,
296. A firm reputation,
297. The ability to contradict,
298. Sigh,
299. What one should learn from artists,
300. Preludes of science,
301. The fancy of the contemplatives,
302. The danger of the happiest,
303. Two who are happy,
304. By doing we forego,
305. Self-control,
306. Stoics and Epicureans,
307. In favor of criticism,
308. The history of every day,
309. From the seventh solitude,
310. Will and wave,
311. Refracted light,
312. My dog,
313. No image of torture,
314. New domestic animals,
315. On the last hour,
316. Prophetic human beings,
317. Looking back,
318. Wisdom in pain,
319. As interpreters of our experiences,
320. Upon seeing each other again,
321. New caution,
322. Parable,
323. Good luck in fate,
324. In media vita,
325. What belongs to greatness,
326. The physicians of the soul and pain,
327. Taking seriously,
328. To harm stupidity,
329. Leisure and idleness,
330. Applause,
331. Better deaf than deafened,
332. The evil hour,
333. The meaning of knowing,
334. One must learn to love,
335. Long live physics!
336. Nature’s stinginess,
337. The “humaneness” of the future,
338. The will to suffer and those who feel pity,
339. Vita femina,
340. The dying Socrates,
341. The greatest weight,
342. Incipit tragoedia,
Book Five: We Fearless Ones
343. The meaning of our cheerfulness,
344. How we, too, are still pious,
345. Morality as a problem,
346. Our question mark,
347. Believers and their need to believe,
348. On the origin of scholars,
349. Once more the origin of scholars,
350. In honor of the homines religiosi,
351. In honor of the priestly type,
352. How morality is scarcely dispensable,
353. On the origin of religions,
354. On the “genius of the species,”
355. The origin of our concept of “knowledge,”
356. How things will become ever more “artistic” in Europe,
357. On the old problem: “What is German?”
358. The peasant rebellion of the spirit,
359. The revenge against the spirit and other ulterior motives of morality,
360. Two kinds of causes that are often confounded,
361. On the problem of the actor,
362. Our faith that Europe will become more virile,
363. How each sex has its own prejudice about love,
364. The hermit speaks,
365. The hermit speaks once more,
366. Faced with a scholarly book,
367. The first distinction to be made regarding works of art,
368. The cynic speaks,
369. Our side by side,
370. What is romanticism?
371. We incomprehensible ones,
372. Why we are no idealists,
373. “Science” as a prejudice,
374. Our new “infinite,”
375. Why we look like Epicureans,
376. Our slow periods,
377. We who are homeless,
378. “And become bright again,”
379. The fool interrupts,
380. “The wanderer” speaks,
381. On the question of being understandable,
382. The great health.
383. Epilogue,
Appendix: Songs of Prince Vogelfrei
To Goethe,
The Poet’s Call,
In the South,
Pious Beppa,
The Mysterious Bark,
Declaration of Love,
Song of a Theocritical Goatherd,
“Souls that are unsure,”
Fool in Despair,
Rimus remedium,
“My Happiness!”
Toward New Seas,
Sils Maria,
To the Mistral,
Acknowledgments
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