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Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen

TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION AUTHOR'S PREFACE WHY I AM SO WISE WHY I AM SO CLEVER WHY I WRITE SUCH EXCELLENT BOOKS The Birth of Tragedy Thoughts out of Season Human, All-too-Human The Dawn of Day The Joyful Wisdom Thus spake Zarathustra Beyond Good and Evil The Genealogy of Moral...

Chapters

8. Part 8

Who can be in any doubt as to what "glorious hoping" means here, when he has realised the diamond beauty of the first of Zarathustra's words as they appear in a glow of light at...

5. Part 5

You may be wondering why I should actually have related all these trivial and, according to traditional accounts, insignificant details to you; such action can but tell against...

4. Part 4

After the choice of nutrition, the choice of climate and locality, the third matter concerning which one must not on any account make a blunder, is the choice of the manner in w...

7. Part 7

I should not like to say that the last two essays in the _Thoughts out of Season,_ associated with the names of Schopenhauer and Wagner respectively, serve any special purpose i...

9. Part 9

"Alas, it is ye alone, ye creatures of gloom, ye spirits of the night, that take your warmth from that which shineth. Ye alone suck your milk and comfort from the udders of light.

10. Part 10

And why should I not proceed to the end? I am fond of clearing the air. It is even part of my ambition to be considered as essentially a despiser of Germans. I expressed my susp...

11. Part 11

The editor begs to state that, contrary to his announcement in the Editorial Note to _The Joyful Wisdom,_ in which he declared his intention of publishing all of Nietzsche's poe...

12. Part 12

Laughter is a serious art. I would do it better daily. Did I well to-day or no? Came the spark right from the heart? Little use though head wag gaily, If the heart contain no glow.

1. Part 1

TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION AUTHOR'S PREFACE WHY I AM SO WISE WHY I AM SO CLEVER WHY I WRITE SUCH EXCELLENT BOOKS The Birth of Tragedy Thoughts out of Season Human, All-too-Human...

2. Part 2

The happiness of my existence, its unique character perhaps, consists in its fatefulness: to speak in a riddle, as my own father I am already dead, as my own mother I still live...

3. Part 3

War, on the other hand, is something different. At heart I am a warrior. Attacking belongs to my instincts. To _be able to be_ an enemy, to _be_ an enemy--maybe these things pre...

6. Part 6

In order to give you some idea of myself as a psychologist, let me take this curious piece of psychological analysis out of the book _Beyond Good and Evil,_ in which it appears....

13. Part 13

Wouldst catch them? Then speak to them As to stray sheep: "Your path, your path You have lost!" They follow all That flatter them so: "What? had we a path?" Each whispers the ot...