Category: Philosophy & Ethics
When Nietzsche called his book _The Dawn of Day_, he was far from giving it a merely fanciful title to attract the attention of that large section of the public which judges books by their titles rather than by their contents. _The Dawn of Day_ represents, figuratively, the da...
IN THE GREAT SILENCE.—Here is the sea, here may we forget the town. It is true that its bells are still ringing the Angelus—that solemn and foolish yet sweet sound at the juncti...
2. BOOK I.SUBSEQUENT JUDGMENT.—All things that endure for a long time are little by little so greatly permeated by reason that their origin in unreason becomes improbable. Does not almost...
5. BOOK IV.THE UTILITY OF THE STRICTEST THEORIES.—People are indulgent towards a man’s moral weaknesses, and in this connection they use a coarse sieve, provided that he always professes t...
3. BOOK II.ONE BECOMES MORAL—but not because one is moral! Submission to morals may be due to slavishness or vanity, egoism or resignation, dismal fanaticism or thoughtlessness. It may, ag...
4. BOOK III.LITTLE UNCONVENTIONAL ACTIONS ARE NECESSARY!—To act occasionally in matters of custom against our own better judgments; to yield in practice while reserving our own intellectual...
1. Book V.When Nietzsche called his book _The Dawn of Day_, he was far from giving it a merely fanciful title to attract the attention of that large section of the public which judges boo...