Category: Philosophy & Ethics
EDITORIAL NOTE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION JEST, RUSE, AND REVENGE: A PRELUDE IN RHYME BOOK FIRST BOOK SECOND BOOK THIRD BOOK FOURTH: SANCTUS JANUARIUS BOOK FIFTH: WE FEARLESS ONES APPENDIX: SONGS OF PRINCE FREE-AS-A-BIRD
EDITORIAL NOTE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION JEST, RUSE, AND REVENGE: A PRELUDE IN RHYME BOOK FIRST BOOK SECOND BOOK THIRD BOOK FOURTH: SANCTUS JANUARIUS BOOK FIFTH: WE FEARLESS...
2. Part 2My wisdom's A and final O Was then the sound that smote mine ear. Yet now it rings no longer so, My youth's eternal Ah! and Oh! Is now the only sound I hear.[2]
3. Part 3_Loss of Dignity.--_Meditation has lost all its dignity of form; the ceremonial and solemn bearing of the meditative person have been made a mockery, and one would no longer end...
4. Part 4_To the Teachers of Unselfishness._--The virtues of a man are called _good,_ not in respect to the results they have for himself, but in respect to the results which we expect t...
5. Part 5_Undesirable Disciples._--What shall I do with these two youths! called out a philosopher dejectedly, who "corrupted" youths, as Socrates had once corrupted them,--they are unwe...
6. Part 6_The Consciousness of Appearance.--_How wonderfully and novelly, and at the same time how awfully and ironically, do I feel myself situated with respect to collective existence,...
7. Part 7_The Animal with good Conscience._--It is not unknown to me that there is vulgarity in everything that pleases Southern Europe--whether it be Italian opera (for example, Rossini...
8. Part 8_The Conceit of Artists._I think artists often do not know what they can do best, because they are too conceited, and have set their minds on something loftier than those little...
9. Part 9_Learning to do Homage._--One must learn the art of homage, as well as the art of contempt. Whoever goes in new paths and has led many persons therein, discovers with astonishme...
10. Part 10_Origin of the Logical._--Where has logic originated in men's heads? Undoubtedly out of the illogical, the domain of which must originally _have_ been immense. But numberless be...
11. Part 11_The Value of Prayer.--_Prayer has been devised for such men as have never any thoughts of their own, and to whom an elevation of the soul is unknown, or passes unnoticed; what...
12. Part 12_Misanthropy and Philanthropy._--We only speak about being sick of men when we can no longer digest them, and yet have the stomach full of them. Misanthropy is the result of a f...
13. Part 13_Personal Providence._--There is a certain climax in life, at which, notwithstanding all our freedom, and however much we may have denied all directing reason and goodness in th...
14. Part 14_Short-lived Habits._--I love short-lived habits, and regard them as an invaluable means for getting a knowledge of _many_ things and various conditions, to the very bottom of t...
15. Part 15_Prophetic Men._--Ye cannot divine how sorely prophetic men suffer: ye think only that a fine "gift" has been given to them, and would fain have it yourselves,--but I will expre...
16. Part 16_Cheers for Physics!_--How many men are there who know how to observe? And among the few who do know,--how many observe themselves? "Everyone is furthest from himself"--all the...
17. Part 17_To what Extent even We are still Pious._--It is said with good reason that convictions have no civic rights in the domain of science: it is only when a conviction voluntarily c...
18. Part 18_In Honour of Priestly Natures._--I think that philosophers have always felt themselves very remote from that which the people (in all classes of society nowadays) take for wisd...
19. Part 19_The old Problem: "What is German?"_--Let us count up apart the real acquisitions of philosophical thought for which we have to thank German intellects: are they in any allowabl...
20. Part 20_The Problem of the Actor_--The problem of the actor has disquieted me the longest; I was uncertain (and am sometimes so still) whether one could not get at the dangerous concep...
21. Part 21_What is Romanticism?_--It will be remembered perhaps, at least among my friends, that at first I assailed the modern world with some gross errors and exaggerations, but at any...
22. Part 22_The Fool's Interruption._--It is not a misanthrope who has written this book: the hatred of men costs too dear to-day. To hate as they formerly hated _man,_ in the fashion of T...
23. Part 23Through my dreams your whistle sounded, Down the rocky stairs I bounded To the golden ocean wall; Saw you hasten, swift and glorious, Like a river, strong, victorious, Tumbling...