# The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")

Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; Levy, Oscar, 1867-1946 [Editor]; Cohn, Paul V. (Paul Victor) [Translator]; Common, Thomas, 1850-1919 [Translator]; Petre, Maude Dominica, 1863-1942 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52881

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## Summary

"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 that beam from his features will astonish those hasty psychologists who have never divined that behind the destroyer is the creator, and behind the blasphemer the lover of life. In the retrospective valuation of his work which appears in "Ecce Homo" the author himself observes with truth that the fourth book, "Sanctus Januarius," deserves especial attention: "The whole book is a gift from the Saint, and the introduc...

## Chapters

- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-joyful-wisdom-la-gaya-scienza-52881/chapters/23/index.md)