Category: Philosophy & Ethics
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and suddenly break into a delightful smile. The warmth and kindness...
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet...
2. Part 2I must ascend an hundred stairs, I must ascend: the herd declares I'm cruel: "Are we made of stone?" I must ascend an hundred stairs: All men the part of stair disown.
3. Part 3_That which Preserves the Species._—The strongest and most evil spirits have hitherto advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions—all orderly arranged...
4. Part 4_Across the Plank._—One must be able to dissimulate in intercourse with persons who are ashamed of their feelings; they experience a sudden aversion towards anyone who surprises...
5. Part 5_Adventitious Liars._—When people began to combat the unity of Aristotle in France, and consequently also to defend it, there was once more to be seen that which has been seen s...
6. Part 6_Magnanimity and allied Qualities._—Those paradoxical phenomena, such as the sudden coldness in the demeanour of good-natured men, the humour of the melancholy, and above all _m...
7. Part 7_The Unsuccessful._—Those poor women always fail of success who become agitated and uncertain, and talk too much in presence of him whom they love; for men are most successfully...
8. Part 8_The Theatre._—This day has given me once more strong and elevated sentiments, and if I could have music and art in the evening, I know well what music and art I should _not_ li...
9. Part 9_The Followers of Schopenhauer._—What one sees at the contact of civilized peoples with barbarians,—namely, that the lower civilization regularly accepts in the first place the...
10. Part 10_Let us be on our Guard._—Let us be on our guard against thinking that the world is a living being. Where could it extend itself? What could it nourish itself with? How could it...
11. Part 11_In the Horizon of the Infinite._—We have left the land and have gone aboard ship! We have broken down the bridge behind us,—nay, more, the land behind us! Well, little ship! lo...
12. Part 12_The Failure of Reformations._—It testifies to the higher culture of the Greeks, even in rather early ages, that attempts to establish new Grecian religions frequently failed; i...
13. Part 13_The Polite Man._—"He is so polite!"—Yes, he has always a sop for Cerberus with him, and is so timid that he takes everybody for Cerberus, even you and me,—that is his "politene...
14. Part 14_One Thing is Needful._—To "give style" to one's character—that is a grand and a rare art! He who surveys all that his nature presents in its strength and in its weakness, and t...
15. Part 15_Self-control._—Those moral teachers who first and foremost order man to get himself into his own power, induce thereby a curious infirmity in him,—namely, a constant sensitiven...
16. Part 16_Leisure and Idleness._—There is an Indian savagery, a savagery peculiar to the Indian blood, in the manner in which the Americans strive after gold: and the breathless hurry of...
17. Part 17_Vita femina._—To see the ultimate beauties in a work—all knowledge and good-will is not enough; it requires the rarest, good chance for the veil of clouds to move for once from...
18. Part 18_Believers and their Need of Belief._—How much _faith_ a person requires in order to flourish, how much "fixed opinion" he requires which he does not wish to have shaken, becaus...
19. Part 19_The Origin of our Conception of "Knowledge."_—I take this explanation from the street. I heard one of the people saying that "he knew me," so I asked myself: What do the people...
20. Part 20_Vengeance on Intellect and other Backgrounds of Morality._—Morality—where do you think it has its most dangerous and rancorous advocates?—There, for example, is an ill-constitu...
21. Part 21_The Cynic Speaks._—My objections to Wagner's music are physiological objections. Why should I therefore begin by disguising them under æsthetic formulæ? My "point" is that I ca...
22. Part 22_We Homeless Ones._—Among the Europeans of to-day there are not lacking those who may call themselves homeless ones in a way which is at once a distinction and an honour; it is...
23. Part 23The Church has ken of living, And tests by heart and face. To me she'll be forgiving! Who will not show me grace? I lisp with pretty halting, I curtsey, bid "good day," And with...