Bestower, the,
Zarathustra
as, xi.
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index
XIV, Will to Power, i.
XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Bad, the, and the good as types of decadence, xiv. 35.
— denned as weakness, xvi. 128.
Bad conscience, Nietzsche's hypothesis concerning its origin,
xiii. 99-118; as the result of the forcing back of
the instinct of freedom, 104; the fountainhead
of altruism and idealism, 105.
Baer, von, an opinion of, alluded to, vi. 245.
Bagehot (Walter), Physics and Politics quoted, v. 193.
Bahnsen, as a philosophic German, and old "humming
top,"x. 310.
Baker, the saying of Comorro to, quoted, xiv. 289.
Bale, the university at, iii. 7-9; Nietzsche's inaugural ad-
dress on Homer and Classical Philosophy, 145-70.
— Nietzsche's resignation of the professorship (1879),
xvii. 10.
Ballet, the, has become master of opera, xv. 271.
Balzac, quoted, xii. 133; instanced among the men of his
century, 219.
Banquets, the vulgar meaning of modern, ix. 209.
Barbarian, the idea left by the aristocratic races on all
their tracks, xiii. 40.
Barbarians, Goethe's conversation with Eckermann on,
quoted, iv. 10; Holderlin's view of Philistines
and barbarians, 20.
— their inability to keep within the bounds of modera-
ation, xv. 309; the new, which come from the
heights, 329.
Barbarism, why detested, ix. 313.
Batis, Alexander's cruelty to, ii. 51.
Baudelaire, alluded to, xiv. 76.
— Sainte-Beuve as in some respects his prototype, xvi. 62.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I. Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, all-too-
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BAUER—BEAUTY
Bauer (Bruno), became an attentive reader of Nietzsche,
xvii. 77.
Bayreuth, Wagner in, iv. 101; the spectator in Bayreuth
—a sight worth seeing, 103; the enterprise at,
and its significance to art, 104; the witness of,
125; a haven for all wanderers, 126.
— another word for a Hydro, viii. 41; the modesty of
Christians at, 49; some concepts too good for,
50; falsity characteristic of Bayreuthians, 51;
one leaves one's self at home when one goes
there, 61; the attitudes, singing, and orchestra
compared, 85; the real Wagner of, 86.
Beautiful, the, the circuitous path to, vii. 56; to will the
good and be capable of the beautiful, 160.
— the rich and leisurely as the actual valuers of, x. 120-1;
the perception of the necessary characters of
things, 213; the means and the art of producing,
233; its discernment, the charm of life, 269.
— the violators of the noble name of (immaculate per-
ception), xi. 145-8.
— Kant's definition compared with Stendhal's, xiii. 131.
— our love of, as the creative will, xv. 21.
— the delight man finds in his fellows, xvi. 74; as the
creation of man, 75; nothing is beautiful—man
alone is beautiful, 75; the two first principles of
all aesthetic, 76.
Beautifying, what we should learn from the artists
regarding the art of, x. 233.
Beauty, the noblest kind of, vi. 156.
— abnegation of the will to beauty in women, vii. 141.
— conformity to customs leads to physical beauty,
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathusira. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
ix. 31; origins of female beauty, 32; and the
significance of the age, 166; the danger in,
257; its kingdom, 332; the increase in, and
civilisation, 355; and knowledge of reality,
381; the beauty of discernment, 382.
Beauty, the voice of, and the virtuous ones, xi. 109; the
gloomy philosophers, who have not yet learned
beauty and laughter, 139; the hardest thing
of all to the hero, 140; when power becomes
gracious and descendeth into the invisible—I call
such condescension beauty, 141; emasculated {im-
maculate perception), 146; Zarathustra's distrust
of insidious beauty—away with thee, thou too
blissful hour . . . involuntary bliss I 197.
— something which is above all order of rank to the
artist, xv. 245; biological value of beauty and
ugliness, 245-7.
— Schopenhauer's conception of. as a momentary emanci-
pation from the "will," xvi. 77; Plato's concep-
tion that all beauty lures to procreation, 78;
not accidental, but attained with pains, 106;
the first rule of—nobody must" let himself go,"
not even when he is alone, 107; why the Greeks
remain the first event in culture, 107-8.
Becoming, the hidden force acting behind, in nature and
art, ii. 5; the cruelty which is its essence, 8;
considered as a punishable emancipation from
eternal being, 93; the declaration of Heraclitus
on, 97; Parmenides'view of, 118; the prayer
of Parmenides, 126; the Anaxagorean concep-
tion of, 146; viewed in the presence of art, 155.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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BECOMING—BEETHOVEN
Becoming, the man condemned to see " becoming " every-
where, v. 8; the personality and the world pro-
cess, 75; and Hartmann's philosophy, 77.
— conceived but not explained, x. 158.
— no purpose can be assigned to, xiv. 12; no great en-
tity rules behind, 13; as a reality, 14.
— on being and becoming, xv. 81; stamped with the
character of being, the highest will to power,
107; defined, 108; concerning the value of,
177-9.
— the philosopher's hatred of the idea of, xvi. 17.
Beethoven, his jubilee song and ninth symphony, i. 27-8;
the effect of a symphony of, 53; his rise and
influence, 151 ; as a topic of conversation, 173.
— incongruity of the words in the last movement of his
ninth symphony, ii. 37-9.
— the benefit he gained from the German culture of
his time, iii. 105.
— the critique of David Strauss travestied, iv. 3 7; a re-
mark of, as commented on by Strauss, 48; the
source of his gaiety, 166; in him music found
her language, 180; the first to make music
speak the language of passion, 181; the sym-
phony as he understood it, 182.
— the biographers of, v. 60; his strength in holding out
against so-called German culture, 120; his
music, 123.
— his ninth symphony, vi. 158; his method of com-
posing, 159.
— and modern execution, vii. 68; composed above the
heads of the Germans, 86; the eighteenth cen-
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
tury sang itself out in Beethoven and Rossini, 88;
his resignation, 143; the work of; a panegyric,
268; alluded to, 308.
Beethoven, and Brahms, viii. 45 ; the eighteenth century's
swan song, 64; Wagner's false presentation of, 91;
Wagner lacks the German charm and grace of,
92; his sublime resignation referred to, 93; his
natural nobility alluded to, 99; bad pianists
who play his works, 181.
— the music of, ix. 229.
— the man, behind German music, x. 140; as con-
ceived and characterised by Goethe, 141.
— the atmosphere of his music, xii. 200; as an Euro-
pean event, 202; as one of the masters of new
modes of speech, 218-9.
— his biographer Thayer,xiii. 179 ; his disposition—that
of a proud peasant, 220; alluded to, 224.
— Schiller as an ingredient of, xiv. 89.
— a classic is the reverse of Beethoven, xv. 273; the
first great romanticist, according to the French
conception, 279; instanced beside Dionysus, 419.
Beggar, The voluntary (Zarathustra's discourse),xi. 326-32.
Beggars, why they still live, vii. 317.
— ought to be suppressed, ix. 184.
— and courtesy, x. 196.
— The Pitiful (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 102-5.
Being, on, and becoming, xv. 81.
— Heraclitus eternally right in declaring it an empty
illusion, xvi. 18; the concept proceeds only
from "ego," 21 ; the error regarding " being " as
formulated by the Eleatics, 22.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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BELIEF—BEYOND
Belief, motive as secondary to, x. 81; what dost thou be-
lieve in? 209; believers' need of, 285; most de-
sired when there is lack of will, 286.
— Nihilism and, xiv. 16; St Paul and the means where-
with men are seduced to belief, 142; the desire
for belief confounded with the will to truth, 372.
Bellini, Schopenhauer and Norma, ii. 42.
Benevolence, on, and beneficence, ix. 355.
— the instincts of appropriation and submission in,x. 162.
Bentham, his utilitarian system, xii. 174.
Bentley, his case instanced, viii. 127; and Horace, 141;
stories concerning, 142.
Bergk, of his history of literature, viii. 153.
Bernard (Claude), alluded to, xiv. 39.
Bernini, alluded to, vi. 164.
Bestower, the, Zarathustra as, xi. 103; the lonesomeness
of all bestowers—Light am I: Ah, that I were
nightI But it is my lonesomeness to be begirt with
night, 124.
— compared with the exhausted ones, xiv. 40.
Bestowing, the reason of Zarathustra's down-going, x. 272.
— The Bestowing Virtue (Zarathustra's discourse), xi.
85-91; the desire of the type of noble souls, 243.
Beyle (Henri). See " Stendhal. "
Beyond, the, in art, vi. 199.
Beyond, the, the concept not even real, xvii. 52; invented
in order to depreciate the only world that exists,
142.
Beyond good and evil, the meaning of that dangerous
motto—not the same, at any rate, as "good and
bad," xiii. 57.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
it XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Beyond good and evil, a forcing house for rare and ex-
ceptional plants, xv. 328.
— the stand demanded for philosophers, xvi. 44; the
reception given to the concept, 90.
Beyond Good and Evil, aphorism 195 recalled by the
question of the Jewish transvaluation, xiii. 31;
aphorisms regarding cruelty referred to, 74; al-
luded to, 145.
— quoted, the genius of the heart, xvii. 67; the book re-
viewed by Nietzsche himself, 114-6; as a criti-
cism of modernity (1886), 115; does not contain
a single good-natured word, 116; its theological
standpoint, 116-
Bible, the, the mightiest book, vi. 347.
— compared with other books, vii. 52-4.
— on the way it is read, ix. 66; and the art of false
reading, 85.
— the masterpiece of German prose, xii. 205; the re-
verence for, an example of discipline and refine-
ment, 238.
— allows of no comparison, xvi. 188; the story of cre-
ation it contains, 197; its beginning contains
the whole psychology of the priest, 199; its vul-
garity, 215.
— the demand it makes upon us, xvii. 93.
Biographers, a mistake made by, vii. 174; a necessary re-
flection of biographers—nature takes no jumps,
295-
Birth of Tragedy, The, the aim of the book—to view science
through the optics of the artist, and art moreover
through the optics of life, i. 4.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth -
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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BIRTH OF TRAGEDY—BLIND
Birth of Tragedy, The, its critics—Zarathustra's discourse
on scholars, xj. 149.
— the preface to, alluded to, xiii. 200.
— art in, xv. 289-92.
— alluded to, xvi. 10.
— reviewed by Nietzsche himself, xvii. 68-75 I Hellen-
ism and Pessimism a less equivocal title, 68;
thought out beneath the walls of Metz, in the
midst of duties to the sick and wounded, 69;
its two decisive innovations, 69; the regarding
of morality itself as a symptom of degeneration,
70; the first translation of the Dionysian phe-
nomenon into philosophical emotion, 70; the
tremendous hope which finds expression in this
work, 72-5.
Bismarck, and David Strauss, iv. 57.
— alluded to (note), vi. 322.
— on unconditional homage to, ix. 169.
— his Machiavellism with a good conscience, x. 305.
— alluded to, xiii. 217, 221, 222.
— and Protestantism, xiv. 71.
— characteristic of the strong German type, xv. 318.
Bitterness, opposite means of avoiding, vii. 33.
Bizet, the twentieth hearing of Carmen, viii. 1; its
orchestration, 1; psychological effects, 2; the
conception of love in his works,- 4.
— as the discoverer of a piece of the South in music,
xii. 216.
Blame, on praise and, ix. 149.
Blind disciples, the, their necessity to help a doctrine to
victory, vi. 127.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Bliss, Involuntary (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 193-8.
Boccaccio, alluded to and quoted, xvi. 194.
Body, the, the contempt of the soul for, xi. 7; the voice
of the healthy body, 32-5; The Despisers of
(Zarathustra's discourse), 35-7; greater than
ego, 36; its despisers criticised—verily not as
creators, as procreators, or as jubilators do ye
love the earth, 146.
— as a social structure composed of many souls, xii. 28.
— the belief in, xv. 18-20; as clue to the man, 132-4;
as an empire, 134; the importance of the
animal functions, 145; the whole of mental
development a matter of the body, 150.
— the importance of its nutrition, xvii. 29; effects on,
of cooking, 30; of alcohol, 31; of diet, 32; of
climate, 33; of idealism, 35; reading a means of
recuperating its strength, 36; concepts invented
to throw contempt on the body, 142.
Boehler, his advice to Wesley, ix. 275.
Bonn, early days at the university, iii. 17; the resolve to
found a small club, 18; holiday excursion to
Rolandseck, 19; the encounter with two
strangers, 22; the philosopher converses, 29;
scene on the wooded heights above the Rhine,
30 ; the work of the club reviewed, 31; the over-
heard conversations, 32; the interlude during
which the students and the philosopher converse,
98; recovered personality, 109; students from,
120.
Books, the possible future of some, v. 133; the comfort
of the savant, 170.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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BOOKS
Books, which teach how to dance, vi. 187; the book grown
almost into a human being, 188.
— a means of attraction to life, vii. 19; dangerous books,
38; the book that tells of Christ, its remarkable in-
fluence, 52 ; cold books, 73; the value of honest
books, 75; a good book needs time, 78; made
better by good readers, and clearer by good op-
ponents, 79 ; the name on the title page, 79; for
whom written, 80; looseness of tongues, 108;
those containing logical paradox termed forbid-
den, 245; the best German prose works, 250;
as teachers, 283; European books, 302.
— Nietzsche makes reference to his, viii. 43; note on
The Genealogy of Morals, 50.
— lights and shades in, x. 125; should carry us away
beyond all books, 205; first questions concern-
ing the value of, 325; observations on learned
books, 325-7; the craftsman and the mere lit-
terateur, 326; traits of the craftsman and the
expert, 327.
— the value of, varies with the condition of the reader,
xii. 44; and the populace, 44; on German books
and methods of reading, 202; the belief of the
recluse regarding, 257.
— the chief characteristic of modern books is the in-
nocence of their intellectual dishonesty, xiii. 178.
— those that count for something in Nietzsche's life, xvi.
112.
— Nietzsche's favourites—small in number, xvii. 37; a
library makes him ill, 37; their misuse to the
detriment of thinking, 48; no one can draw
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
more out of books than he already knows, 57;
Nietzsche's privileges as a writer of, 60; his
readers, 61; his perfect reader, 62.
Books, Why I write such excellent, xvii. 55-130.
Boredom, vii. 225.
Borgia, Caesar, as a man of prey, xii. 118.
— alluded to, xvi. 90; Boccaccio's remark regarding, 194.
Born again, the term applied to Peter Gast, xvii. 97.
Boscovich, his refutation of atomism, xii. 19.
Bourgeois, the, the seeking of conditions which are
emancipated from, xiv. 97.
Bourget (Paul), as a representative of modern Paris, xvii. 38.
Brahmanism and the precepts of Christianity, ix. 65; its be-
liefs and achievements compared with European
Christianity,94; the story of King Visvamitra, 114.
Brahmins, the, their use of religious organisation as a
means to secure that super-regal state, xii. 80.
— their warlike instincts, xiii. 146.
— their attitude to truth and the belief that something
is true, xvi. 152.
Brahms, analytically criticised, viii. 44-6; the most
wholesome phenomena, 99.
— as a typical Epigone, xiv. 88.
Brandes, v. 190.
Bravery, and cowards, ix. 259; the last argument of the
brave man, 345; the brave soldiers of know-
ledge, 392-3.
— Napoleon's opinion concerning Murat, x. 189.
— Zarathustra speaks of bravery and passing by, xi. 256.
Breeding, Discipline and, (Book iv. ) xv. 295-432.
Brevity, the fruit of long reflection, vii. 68-9.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii.
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Bad, the, and the good as types of decadence, xiv. 35.
— denned as weakness, xvi. 128.
Bad conscience, Nietzsche's hypothesis concerning its origin,
xiii. 99-118; as the result of the forcing back of
the instinct of freedom, 104; the fountainhead
of altruism and idealism, 105.
Baer, von, an opinion of, alluded to, vi. 245.
Bagehot (Walter), Physics and Politics quoted, v. 193.
Bahnsen, as a philosophic German, and old "humming
top,"x. 310.
Baker, the saying of Comorro to, quoted, xiv. 289.
Bale, the university at, iii. 7-9; Nietzsche's inaugural ad-
dress on Homer and Classical Philosophy, 145-70.
— Nietzsche's resignation of the professorship (1879),
xvii. 10.
Ballet, the, has become master of opera, xv. 271.
Balzac, quoted, xii. 133; instanced among the men of his
century, 219.
Banquets, the vulgar meaning of modern, ix. 209.
Barbarian, the idea left by the aristocratic races on all
their tracks, xiii. 40.
Barbarians, Goethe's conversation with Eckermann on,
quoted, iv. 10; Holderlin's view of Philistines
and barbarians, 20.
— their inability to keep within the bounds of modera-
ation, xv. 309; the new, which come from the
heights, 329.
Barbarism, why detested, ix. 313.
Batis, Alexander's cruelty to, ii. 51.
Baudelaire, alluded to, xiv. 76.
— Sainte-Beuve as in some respects his prototype, xvi. 62.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I. Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, all-too-
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BAUER—BEAUTY
Bauer (Bruno), became an attentive reader of Nietzsche,
xvii. 77.
Bayreuth, Wagner in, iv. 101; the spectator in Bayreuth
—a sight worth seeing, 103; the enterprise at,
and its significance to art, 104; the witness of,
125; a haven for all wanderers, 126.
— another word for a Hydro, viii. 41; the modesty of
Christians at, 49; some concepts too good for,
50; falsity characteristic of Bayreuthians, 51;
one leaves one's self at home when one goes
there, 61; the attitudes, singing, and orchestra
compared, 85; the real Wagner of, 86.
Beautiful, the, the circuitous path to, vii. 56; to will the
good and be capable of the beautiful, 160.
— the rich and leisurely as the actual valuers of, x. 120-1;
the perception of the necessary characters of
things, 213; the means and the art of producing,
233; its discernment, the charm of life, 269.
— the violators of the noble name of (immaculate per-
ception), xi. 145-8.
— Kant's definition compared with Stendhal's, xiii. 131.
— our love of, as the creative will, xv. 21.
— the delight man finds in his fellows, xvi. 74; as the
creation of man, 75; nothing is beautiful—man
alone is beautiful, 75; the two first principles of
all aesthetic, 76.
Beautifying, what we should learn from the artists
regarding the art of, x. 233.
Beauty, the noblest kind of, vi. 156.
— abnegation of the will to beauty in women, vii. 141.
— conformity to customs leads to physical beauty,
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathusira. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
ix. 31; origins of female beauty, 32; and the
significance of the age, 166; the danger in,
257; its kingdom, 332; the increase in, and
civilisation, 355; and knowledge of reality,
381; the beauty of discernment, 382.
Beauty, the voice of, and the virtuous ones, xi. 109; the
gloomy philosophers, who have not yet learned
beauty and laughter, 139; the hardest thing
of all to the hero, 140; when power becomes
gracious and descendeth into the invisible—I call
such condescension beauty, 141; emasculated {im-
maculate perception), 146; Zarathustra's distrust
of insidious beauty—away with thee, thou too
blissful hour . . . involuntary bliss I 197.
— something which is above all order of rank to the
artist, xv. 245; biological value of beauty and
ugliness, 245-7.
— Schopenhauer's conception of. as a momentary emanci-
pation from the "will," xvi. 77; Plato's concep-
tion that all beauty lures to procreation, 78;
not accidental, but attained with pains, 106;
the first rule of—nobody must" let himself go,"
not even when he is alone, 107; why the Greeks
remain the first event in culture, 107-8.
Becoming, the hidden force acting behind, in nature and
art, ii. 5; the cruelty which is its essence, 8;
considered as a punishable emancipation from
eternal being, 93; the declaration of Heraclitus
on, 97; Parmenides'view of, 118; the prayer
of Parmenides, 126; the Anaxagorean concep-
tion of, 146; viewed in the presence of art, 155.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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BECOMING—BEETHOVEN
Becoming, the man condemned to see " becoming " every-
where, v. 8; the personality and the world pro-
cess, 75; and Hartmann's philosophy, 77.
— conceived but not explained, x. 158.
— no purpose can be assigned to, xiv. 12; no great en-
tity rules behind, 13; as a reality, 14.
— on being and becoming, xv. 81; stamped with the
character of being, the highest will to power,
107; defined, 108; concerning the value of,
177-9.
— the philosopher's hatred of the idea of, xvi. 17.
Beethoven, his jubilee song and ninth symphony, i. 27-8;
the effect of a symphony of, 53; his rise and
influence, 151 ; as a topic of conversation, 173.
— incongruity of the words in the last movement of his
ninth symphony, ii. 37-9.
— the benefit he gained from the German culture of
his time, iii. 105.
— the critique of David Strauss travestied, iv. 3 7; a re-
mark of, as commented on by Strauss, 48; the
source of his gaiety, 166; in him music found
her language, 180; the first to make music
speak the language of passion, 181; the sym-
phony as he understood it, 182.
— the biographers of, v. 60; his strength in holding out
against so-called German culture, 120; his
music, 123.
— his ninth symphony, vi. 158; his method of com-
posing, 159.
— and modern execution, vii. 68; composed above the
heads of the Germans, 86; the eighteenth cen-
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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tury sang itself out in Beethoven and Rossini, 88;
his resignation, 143; the work of; a panegyric,
268; alluded to, 308.
Beethoven, and Brahms, viii. 45 ; the eighteenth century's
swan song, 64; Wagner's false presentation of, 91;
Wagner lacks the German charm and grace of,
92; his sublime resignation referred to, 93; his
natural nobility alluded to, 99; bad pianists
who play his works, 181.
— the music of, ix. 229.
— the man, behind German music, x. 140; as con-
ceived and characterised by Goethe, 141.
— the atmosphere of his music, xii. 200; as an Euro-
pean event, 202; as one of the masters of new
modes of speech, 218-9.
— his biographer Thayer,xiii. 179 ; his disposition—that
of a proud peasant, 220; alluded to, 224.
— Schiller as an ingredient of, xiv. 89.
— a classic is the reverse of Beethoven, xv. 273; the
first great romanticist, according to the French
conception, 279; instanced beside Dionysus, 419.
Beggar, The voluntary (Zarathustra's discourse),xi. 326-32.
Beggars, why they still live, vii. 317.
— ought to be suppressed, ix. 184.
— and courtesy, x. 196.
— The Pitiful (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 102-5.
Being, on, and becoming, xv. 81.
— Heraclitus eternally right in declaring it an empty
illusion, xvi. 18; the concept proceeds only
from "ego," 21 ; the error regarding " being " as
formulated by the Eleatics, 22.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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BELIEF—BEYOND
Belief, motive as secondary to, x. 81; what dost thou be-
lieve in? 209; believers' need of, 285; most de-
sired when there is lack of will, 286.
— Nihilism and, xiv. 16; St Paul and the means where-
with men are seduced to belief, 142; the desire
for belief confounded with the will to truth, 372.
Bellini, Schopenhauer and Norma, ii. 42.
Benevolence, on, and beneficence, ix. 355.
— the instincts of appropriation and submission in,x. 162.
Bentham, his utilitarian system, xii. 174.
Bentley, his case instanced, viii. 127; and Horace, 141;
stories concerning, 142.
Bergk, of his history of literature, viii. 153.
Bernard (Claude), alluded to, xiv. 39.
Bernini, alluded to, vi. 164.
Bestower, the, Zarathustra as, xi. 103; the lonesomeness
of all bestowers—Light am I: Ah, that I were
nightI But it is my lonesomeness to be begirt with
night, 124.
— compared with the exhausted ones, xiv. 40.
Bestowing, the reason of Zarathustra's down-going, x. 272.
— The Bestowing Virtue (Zarathustra's discourse), xi.
85-91; the desire of the type of noble souls, 243.
Beyle (Henri). See " Stendhal. "
Beyond, the, in art, vi. 199.
Beyond, the, the concept not even real, xvii. 52; invented
in order to depreciate the only world that exists,
142.
Beyond good and evil, the meaning of that dangerous
motto—not the same, at any rate, as "good and
bad," xiii. 57.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
it XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Beyond good and evil, a forcing house for rare and ex-
ceptional plants, xv. 328.
— the stand demanded for philosophers, xvi. 44; the
reception given to the concept, 90.
Beyond Good and Evil, aphorism 195 recalled by the
question of the Jewish transvaluation, xiii. 31;
aphorisms regarding cruelty referred to, 74; al-
luded to, 145.
— quoted, the genius of the heart, xvii. 67; the book re-
viewed by Nietzsche himself, 114-6; as a criti-
cism of modernity (1886), 115; does not contain
a single good-natured word, 116; its theological
standpoint, 116-
Bible, the, the mightiest book, vi. 347.
— compared with other books, vii. 52-4.
— on the way it is read, ix. 66; and the art of false
reading, 85.
— the masterpiece of German prose, xii. 205; the re-
verence for, an example of discipline and refine-
ment, 238.
— allows of no comparison, xvi. 188; the story of cre-
ation it contains, 197; its beginning contains
the whole psychology of the priest, 199; its vul-
garity, 215.
— the demand it makes upon us, xvii. 93.
Biographers, a mistake made by, vii. 174; a necessary re-
flection of biographers—nature takes no jumps,
295-
Birth of Tragedy, The, the aim of the book—to view science
through the optics of the artist, and art moreover
through the optics of life, i. 4.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth -
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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BIRTH OF TRAGEDY—BLIND
Birth of Tragedy, The, its critics—Zarathustra's discourse
on scholars, xj. 149.
— the preface to, alluded to, xiii. 200.
— art in, xv. 289-92.
— alluded to, xvi. 10.
— reviewed by Nietzsche himself, xvii. 68-75 I Hellen-
ism and Pessimism a less equivocal title, 68;
thought out beneath the walls of Metz, in the
midst of duties to the sick and wounded, 69;
its two decisive innovations, 69; the regarding
of morality itself as a symptom of degeneration,
70; the first translation of the Dionysian phe-
nomenon into philosophical emotion, 70; the
tremendous hope which finds expression in this
work, 72-5.
Bismarck, and David Strauss, iv. 57.
— alluded to (note), vi. 322.
— on unconditional homage to, ix. 169.
— his Machiavellism with a good conscience, x. 305.
— alluded to, xiii. 217, 221, 222.
— and Protestantism, xiv. 71.
— characteristic of the strong German type, xv. 318.
Bitterness, opposite means of avoiding, vii. 33.
Bizet, the twentieth hearing of Carmen, viii. 1; its
orchestration, 1; psychological effects, 2; the
conception of love in his works,- 4.
— as the discoverer of a piece of the South in music,
xii. 216.
Blame, on praise and, ix. 149.
Blind disciples, the, their necessity to help a doctrine to
victory, vi. 127.
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Bliss, Involuntary (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 193-8.
Boccaccio, alluded to and quoted, xvi. 194.
Body, the, the contempt of the soul for, xi. 7; the voice
of the healthy body, 32-5; The Despisers of
(Zarathustra's discourse), 35-7; greater than
ego, 36; its despisers criticised—verily not as
creators, as procreators, or as jubilators do ye
love the earth, 146.
— as a social structure composed of many souls, xii. 28.
— the belief in, xv. 18-20; as clue to the man, 132-4;
as an empire, 134; the importance of the
animal functions, 145; the whole of mental
development a matter of the body, 150.
— the importance of its nutrition, xvii. 29; effects on,
of cooking, 30; of alcohol, 31; of diet, 32; of
climate, 33; of idealism, 35; reading a means of
recuperating its strength, 36; concepts invented
to throw contempt on the body, 142.
Boehler, his advice to Wesley, ix. 275.
Bonn, early days at the university, iii. 17; the resolve to
found a small club, 18; holiday excursion to
Rolandseck, 19; the encounter with two
strangers, 22; the philosopher converses, 29;
scene on the wooded heights above the Rhine,
30 ; the work of the club reviewed, 31; the over-
heard conversations, 32; the interlude during
which the students and the philosopher converse,
98; recovered personality, 109; students from,
120.
Books, the possible future of some, v. 133; the comfort
of the savant, 170.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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BOOKS
Books, which teach how to dance, vi. 187; the book grown
almost into a human being, 188.
— a means of attraction to life, vii. 19; dangerous books,
38; the book that tells of Christ, its remarkable in-
fluence, 52 ; cold books, 73; the value of honest
books, 75; a good book needs time, 78; made
better by good readers, and clearer by good op-
ponents, 79 ; the name on the title page, 79; for
whom written, 80; looseness of tongues, 108;
those containing logical paradox termed forbid-
den, 245; the best German prose works, 250;
as teachers, 283; European books, 302.
— Nietzsche makes reference to his, viii. 43; note on
The Genealogy of Morals, 50.
— lights and shades in, x. 125; should carry us away
beyond all books, 205; first questions concern-
ing the value of, 325; observations on learned
books, 325-7; the craftsman and the mere lit-
terateur, 326; traits of the craftsman and the
expert, 327.
— the value of, varies with the condition of the reader,
xii. 44; and the populace, 44; on German books
and methods of reading, 202; the belief of the
recluse regarding, 257.
— the chief characteristic of modern books is the in-
nocence of their intellectual dishonesty, xiii. 178.
— those that count for something in Nietzsche's life, xvi.
112.
— Nietzsche's favourites—small in number, xvii. 37; a
library makes him ill, 37; their misuse to the
detriment of thinking, 48; no one can draw
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Dawn of Day. X, Joyful
Wisdom. XI, Zarathustra. XII, Beyond Good and Evil. XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Will to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
more out of books than he already knows, 57;
Nietzsche's privileges as a writer of, 60; his
readers, 61; his perfect reader, 62.
Books, Why I write such excellent, xvii. 55-130.
Boredom, vii. 225.
Borgia, Caesar, as a man of prey, xii. 118.
— alluded to, xvi. 90; Boccaccio's remark regarding, 194.
Born again, the term applied to Peter Gast, xvii. 97.
Boscovich, his refutation of atomism, xii. 19.
Bourgeois, the, the seeking of conditions which are
emancipated from, xiv. 97.
Bourget (Paul), as a representative of modern Paris, xvii. 38.
Brahmanism and the precepts of Christianity, ix. 65; its be-
liefs and achievements compared with European
Christianity,94; the story of King Visvamitra, 114.
Brahmins, the, their use of religious organisation as a
means to secure that super-regal state, xii. 80.
— their warlike instincts, xiii. 146.
— their attitude to truth and the belief that something
is true, xvi. 152.
Brahms, analytically criticised, viii. 44-6; the most
wholesome phenomena, 99.
— as a typical Epigone, xiv. 88.
Brandes, v. 190.
Bravery, and cowards, ix. 259; the last argument of the
brave man, 345; the brave soldiers of know-
ledge, 392-3.
— Napoleon's opinion concerning Murat, x. 189.
— Zarathustra speaks of bravery and passing by, xi. 256.
Breeding, Discipline and, (Book iv. ) xv. 295-432.
Brevity, the fruit of long reflection, vii. 68-9.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow:—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II, Early Greek Philosophy. Ill, Future of Educa-
tional Institutions. IV, Thoughts out of Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii.
