Nonsense,
pleasure
in, vi.
Nietzsche - v18 - Epilogue, Index
XI, Zarathustra.
XII, Beyond Good and Evil.
XIII,
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Witt to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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for new philosophers, 382; spiritual freedom,
384.
Nietzsche, his principle regarding God as spirit, xv. 40; his
view of truth, 49; his question—why should
an irrefutable assumption necessarily be true?
49; anti-Darwin, 158-60; and the man of the
future, 160; his opposition to Socialism, 206-9;
my future, 238; art in The Birth of Tragedy,
289-92; the type of my disciples, 333; opposed
to happiness, a la Spinoza, or a la Epicurus,
334; his desire to naturalise asceticism, 336; /
teach that . . . A single individual may justify
whole millenniums of existence, 386; his experi-
ences towards 1876, 389 ; the formula—" Diony-
sian" as a justification of life, 390; standpoint
from which his values are determined, 391; my
five noes, 401; / have taught the knowledge of
such terrible things, 405 ; the first to discover the
tragic, 406; we believe in Olympus, not in the
man on the Cross, 407; from the military school
of the soul, 410; his new road to an affirmative
attitude, 411-3; describes his "Dionysian"
world as will to power and nothing else, 432.
— the authority of posthumous men in being misunder-
stood, xvi. 3 ; rungs in my ladder, 7 ; the formula
of my happiness—a yea, a nay, a straight line, a
goal, 8; my impossible people, 60 ; on the reception
given to his concept Beyond Good and Evil, 90;
my concept of Freedom, 94; and of Genius, 101;
his appreciation of Dostoiewsky and Stendhal,
104; progress in my sense, 108 ; his conceptions,
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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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of a certain degree of immortality for his works—
of the aphorism—of himself as stylist—of Zara-
thustra, xvi. i11; things I owe to the ancients,
(Chap, x. ) 112-20; his books, 112; his style,
112; his indebtedness to the Romans and the
Greeks, 113; to Plato, 114; Thucydides, 114;
Machiavelli, 114-5 . his mission to rediscoverthe
Greeks, 115-6; the first to take Dionysus seriously,
117 ; the Hellenic symbolism of sex, 119; the last
disciple of Dionysus, 120; the prophet of The
Eternal Recurrence, 120; the day after to-morrow
belongs to me, 125 ; on the conditions under which
he may be understood, 125; his preordained
readers, 126 ;we hyperboreans, 127 ; the problem
he sets himself in The Antichrist, 128; man-
kind's corruption revealed, 130; his antithesis—
the theologian, 133; war on the theological
instinct, 134; ourselves—we free spirits—already
a transvaluation of all values, 139; his contempt
for the man of to-day, 176; pronounces judg-
ment on Christianity, 230; would fain write his
eternal accusation on all walls, 231; everything
has returned—and this last thought of thine that
all these things will return, 248; to the beloved
stranger, 249; on the world of energy, 249; on
the eternal recurrence, 250; the hour of noon,
250; my doctrine, 251; the best ballast, 252;
reincarnation, 253; leading tendencies, 254; a
religion, 255 ; for the mightiest thought many
millenniums may be necessary, 2 56; my predecessors
—Heraclitus, Empedocles, Spinoza, Goethe, 273.
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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Nietzsche, his intention in Ecce Homo, xvii. i; would prefer
to be a satyr to a saint, 2 ; his conception of
philosophy, 3; the place Zarathustra holds in
his lifework, 3-4; on his four-and-fortieth year,
7 ; his existence unique in its fatefulness, 9; the
death of his father, 9 ; resigned his professorship
at Bale, 1879,10; The Wanderer and his Shadow
written at Naumburg, winter 1879, 10; The
Dawn of Day at Genoa, 10; his nerve symptoms,
11; his eye trouble, 11; his gift of observation,
ir ; a decadent and the reverse, 12; his will
to health and to life, 12 ; describes himself, 13;
his ancestors, Polish noblemen, 14; his father,
1813-1849, 15; his birthday coincides with
the Emperor William's, hence his Christian
names, 15; his privileges, 15; his father's yea
to life, 15; his temperament, 16; his pupil
Stein's compliment, 17; why he reproaches the
pitiful, 18 ; Zarathustra's temptation quoted, 18;
his form of retaliation, 19; causes of his freedom
from resentment, 20; on resentment, 21; his
Russian fatalism and distaste of change, 22; at
heart a warrior, 23; his war tactics, 23; on his
attacks on Wagner and Strauss, 24; and Chris-
tianity, 24; his sense of cleanliness, 25; pure
habits and honesty towards himself among the
conditions of his existence, 25; his need of
solitude, 26; Zarathustra quoted, 26; Why lam
so wise, 9-27; Why I am so clever, 28-54;
why he knows more things than other people, 28;
without religious difficulties, 28; unacquainted
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, ail-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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with atheism, xvii. 28; the importance of nutri-
tion, 29 ; nutrition formulated, 29 ; on cookery—
English, German, 30; alcoholic drinks not suited
to, 30; his antipodes live in Munich, 31; has
experienced what vegetarianism means, 31;
effects of alcohol on, 32; on diet, 32; indica-
tions to his morality, 33; his susceptibility to
climatic influences, 33; his illness compelled
him to reflect on such matters, 34; unable to
recall one happy reminiscence of childhood or
youth, 34; idealism as the curse of his life,'35;
a philologist through a blunder, 35; brought
to reason through illness, 35 ;reading as a means
of recuperation, 36; an allusion to his Laertiana,
37; his favourite books, a few—a library makes
him ill, 37; his belief only in French culture,
37 ; the example of Cosima Wagner, 38; French
affinities, 38; the happy accidents of his life,
38; Stendhal and Heine, 39; Byron's Manfred,
40; his overture to Manfred, 40; his estimate
of Shakespeare, 40; Bacon versus Shakespeare,
40-1; his most intimate relationship with
Wagner, 41; Wagner and Paris, 42; Wagner's
condescension to the Germans, 43; effects of
Tristan und Isolde, 43; a Wagnerite from that
moment, 43; Wagner his greatest benefactor,
44; his exactions from music, 45; would let
all music go if he could keep Chopin, 45; ex-
ceptions, 45; his musical impressions, 46;
taste—the instinct of defence, 46; restraint,
47; intercourse with books, 48; has known
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
Nietzsche, his intention in Ecu Homo, xvii. i; would prefer
to be a satyr to a saint, 2; his conception of
philosophy, 3; the place Zarathustra holds in
his lifework, 3-4; on his four-and-fortieth year,
7; his existence unique in its fatefulness, 9; the
death of his father, 9 ; resigned his professorship
at Bale, 1879,10; The Wanderer and his Shadmv
written at Naumburg, winter 1879, 1O, Tfc
Dawn of Day at Genoa, 10 ; his nerve symptoms,
11; his eye trouble, 11; his gift of observation,
11 ; a decadent and the reverse, 12; his will
to health and to life, 12 ; describes himself, 13;
his ancestors, Polish noblemen, 14 ; his father,
1813-1849, 15; his birthday coincides with
the Emperor William's, hence his Christian
names, 15 ; his privileges, 15 ; his father's yea
to life, 15; his temperament, 16; his pupil
Stein's compliment, 17; why he reproaches the
pitiful, 18; Zarathustra's temptation quoted, 18;
his form of retaliation, 19; causes of his freedom
from resentment, 20; on resentment, 21; his
Russian fatalism and distaste of change, 22; at
heart a warrior, 23; his war tactics, 23; on his
attacks on Wagner and Strauss, 24; and Chris-
tianity, 24; his sense of cleanliness, 25; pure
habits and honesty towards himself among the
conditions of his existence, 25; his need of
solitude, 26; Zarathustra quoted, 26; Why I am
so wise, 9-27; Why I am so clever, 28-54;
why he knows more things than other people, 28;
without religious difficulties, 28; unacquainted
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
0f Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, all-too-
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with atheism, xvii. 28; the importance of nutri-
tion, 29 ; nutrition formulated, 29; on cookery—
English, German, 30; alcoholic drinks not suited
to, 30; his antipodes live in Munich, 31; has
experienced what vegetarianism means, 31;
effects of alcohol on, 32; on diet, 32; indica-
tions to his morality, 33; his susceptibility to
climatic influences, 33; his illness compelled
him to reflect on such matters, 34; unable to
recall one happy reminiscence of childhood or
youth, 34; idealism as the curse of his life,'35;
a philologist through a blunder, 35; brought
to reason through illness, 35 ;reading as a means
of recuperation, 36; an allusion to his Laertiana,
37; his favourite books, a few—a library makes
him ill, 37; his belief only in French culture,
37 ; the example of Cosima Wagner, 38; French
affinities, 38; the happy accidents of his life,
38; Stendhal and Heine, 39; Byron's Manfred,
40; his overture to Manfred, 40; his estimate
of Shakespeare, 40; Bacon versus Shakespeare,
40-1; his most intimate relationship with
Wagner, 41; Wagner and Paris, 42; Wagner's
condescension to the Germans, 43; effects of
Tristan und Isolde, 43; a Wagnerite from that
moment, 43; Wagner his greatest benefactor,
44; his exactions from music, 45; would let
all music go if he could keep Chopin, 45; ex-
ceptions, 45; his musical impressions, 46;
taste—the instinct of defence, 46; restraint,
47; intercourse with books, 48; has known
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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Nietzsche, his intention in Eece Homo, xvii. i; would prefer
to be a satyr to a saint, 2 ; his conception of
philosophy, 3; the place Zarathustra holds in
his lifework, 3-4; on his four-and-fortieth year,
7; his existence unique in its fatefulness, 9; the
death of his father, 9 ; resigned his professorship
at Bale, 1879, 1O, The Wanderer and his Shadmv
written at Naumburg, winter 1879, I0; The
Dawn of Day at Genoa, 10; his nerve symptoms,
11; his eye trouble, 11; his gift of observation,
1 1 ; a decadent and the reverse, 12; his will
to health and to life, 12 ; describes himself, 13;
his ancestors, Polish noblemen, 14 ; his father,
1813-1849, 15; his birthday coincides with
the Emperor William's, hence his Christian
names, 15 ; his privileges, 15 ; his father's yea
to life, 15; his temperament, 16; his pupil
Stein's compliment, 17; why he reproaches the
pitiful, 18; Zarathustra's temptation quoted, 18;
his form of retaliation, 19; causes of his freedom
from resentment, 20; on resentment, 21; his
Russian fatalism and distaste of change, 22; at
heart a warrior, 23; his war tactics, 23; on his
attacks on Wagner and Strauss, 24 ; and Chris-
tianity, 24; his sense of cleanliness, 25; pure
habits and honesty towards himself among the
conditions of his existence, 25; his need of
solitude, 26; Zarathustra quoted, 26; Why I am
so wise, 9-27; Why I am so clever, 28-54;
why he knows more things than other people, 28;
without religious difficulties, 28; unacquainted
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
»f Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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with atheism, xvii. 28; the importance of nutri-
tion, 29 ; nutrition formulated, 29; on cookery—
English, German, 30; alcoholic drinks not suited
to, 30; his antipodes live in Munich, 31; has
experienced what vegetarianism means, 31;
effects of alcohol on, 32; on diet, 32; indica-
tions to his morality, 33; his susceptibility to
climatic influences, 33; his illness compelled
him to reflect on such matters, 34; unable to
recall one happy reminiscence of childhood or
youth, 34; idealism as the curse of his life,'35;
a philologist through a blunder, 35; brought
to reason through illness, 35 ;reading as a means
of recuperation, 36; an allusion to his Laertiana,
37; his favourite books, a few—a library makes
him ill, 37; his belief only in French culture,
37 ; the example of Cosima Wagner, 38; French
affinities, 38; the happy accidents of his life,
38; Stendhal and Heine, 39; Byron's Manfred,
40; his overture to Manfred, 40; his estimate
of Shakespeare, 40; Bacon versus Shakespeare,
40-1; his most intimate relationship with
Wagner, 41; Wagner and Paris, 42; Wagner's
condescension to the Germans, 43; effects of
Tristan und Isolde, 43; a Wagnerite from that
moment, 43; Wagner his greatest benefactor,
44; his exactions from music, 45; would let
all music go if he could keep Chopin, 45; ex-
ceptions, 45; his musical impressions, 46;
taste—the instinct of defence, 46; restraint,
47; intercourse with books, 48; has known
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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people read to ruins at thirty, xvii. 48; on becom-
ing what one is, 48-9; his instinctive traits, 50; his
mental calm, 50; never bothered about honours,
women, or money, 51; how he became a uni-
versity professor, 51; the inconceivable import-
ance of diet, climate, and one's mode of recrea-
tion, reiterated, 52 ; his freedom from morbidity,
52 ; and fanaticism, 53 ; declares his life to have
been easiest when it exacted the heaviest
penalties from him, 53; his formula of great-
ness—amorfati, 54; Why I write such excellent
books, 55-130; his time not yet come—some
are born posthumously, 55; early criticisms, 56;
general remarks on books, 57; his would-be
interpreters, 58; not successful at being pompous,
59; his small ears denote the anti-ass, 60; his
privileges as a writer, 60 ; opinions of acquaint-
ances on his writings, 61; the perfect reader,
62; his art of style, 62-3; The seven seals as
an example of style, 64; the propositions on which
the whole world are agreed are to me but ingenious
blunders, 64 ; the first psychologist of The Eternal
Feminine, 65 ; his definition of love, 65 ; women's
needs, 66; the truth about emancipation of
women, 66; as psychologist, 67; Beyond Good
and Evil quoted—the genius of the heart, 67;
on The Birth of Tragedy (1872), 68 et sea. ;
his name may be replaced for Wagner's in the
essay "Wagner in Bayreuth," 74; on Thoughts
out of Season, 75 et seq. ; their evidence of his
warlike prowess, 75-6; Wagner and Schopen-
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hauer in, as types representing Nietzsche, xvii.
76; his early reviewers, 77; the after-effects of his
essay on David Strauss proved invaluable, 79;
on Human, all-too-Human, 82 tt seq. ; and
Voltaire, both grandees of intellect, 83; first
days at Bayreuth, 84; his sudden departure, 85;
his return to himself, 86-8; the crossing of his
Human, all-too-Human and Wagner's Parsifal,
89; and Dr. Paul R£e, 90; on The Dawn of
Day, 91 etseq. ; his campaign against morality
opened therein, 91; on Thus spake Zarathustra,
96 et seq. ; his life task—to prepare for humanity
one supreme moment, a Great Noon, 93; on
Joyful Wisdom, 95; his first conceptions of
eternal recurrence in 1881, 96; the omen of its
coming, 97; the Hymn to Life, 97,209; his belief
that everything decisive comes to life in defiance
of every obstacle, 98; circumstances in which
Zarathustra originated, 98-9; his experience of
inspiration, 101-3; the composition of Zara-
thustra, 104; periods of industry in years of
unparalleled distress—the rancour of greatness,
105; his psychological view of himself at the
period of writing Zarathustra, 105; describes
his Zarathustra, 107 ; the concept "Superman,"
108; the idea of " Dionysus," 109; The Night
Song quoted, 110; Ariadne—who knows Ariadne
but I1 112; determines his life task, 113; the
yea-saying part of his task accomplished in
Zarathustra, he turns to the negative portion—
the transvaluation of all values, 114-5; on
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,
U. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecc e Homo.
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Beyond Good and Evil, xvii. 114-6; The Genea-
logy of Morals, 116-8; The Twilight of the
Idols, 118-21; The Case of Wagner, 121-30;
his suffering from music, 121; declares—I have
loved Wagner, 122; and the Germans—they
will attempt to make a great fate give birth to a
mouse, 126 ; his readers and listeners—Russians,
Scandinavians and Frenchmen, 126; his ambi-
tion to be considered a despiser of Germany, 128;
Why I am a fatality, 131-43; his foreseen destiny,
131; his discovery of truth, 132; the meaning
of the word Zarathustra in the mouth of the
first immoralist, 133 ; the two negations involved
in his title of im moralist, 134; the title as a badge
of honour, 138; the first to feel Christian morality
beneath him, 138; his unmasking of it, 139.
Night, a reverie on, vii. 189.
Night Song, The (of Zarathustra), xi. 124-6.
Nihilism,would doing away with venerations be? x. 284-5 ,
as showing the need of belief, 286.
— as yet humanity hath no goal (Zarathustra), xi. 68.
— lies in our being tired of man, xiii. 44.
— its triumph inevitable, xiv. 1; the will to power as
a counter movement to, 2; the logical conclu-
sion of current values, 2; European Nihilism,
(Bk. i) 5-109; plan of the book, 5-7; denned
as the absolute repudiation of worth, purpose,
desirability, 5; as the outcome of the valuations
and interpretations of existence which have pre-
vailed hitherto, 8-22; as the result of fully de-
veloped truthfulness, 8; consequences of, as a
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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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result of moral valuation, xiv. 10 ; pessimism as
a preparatory state of, 11; as a psychological con-
dition, 12-4; disillusionment in regard to pur-
pose of existence a cause of, 12; the final form of,
the denial of the metaphysical world, 14; as an
intermediary pathological condition, 15; the ex-
tremest form of, 16; respect in which it might be
a divine view of the world, 17; on the question
—to what purposed 19; the perfect Nihilist, 20;
active and passive, 21; the genesis of the Nihi-
list, 22; further causes of, 23-31 ; convictions
of the philosophic Nihilist, 30; the Nihilistic
movement as an expression of decadence, 31-47;
not a cause but only a rationale of decadence,
35; The Crisis: Nihilism and the Idea of Re-
currence, 47-54; the unhealthiest kind of man
as the soil out of which it grew, 53; periods of
European Nihilism—obscurity, light, three great
passions, catastrophes, 54; the possibility of its
being a good sign, 92; an antidote no longer
so urgently needed, 94; The Physiology of Nihil-
istic Religions, 129-32; systematic Nihilism in
action, and Christianity, 203; its great counter-
feit courage, 302.
Nihilism may be a symptom of increasing strength or of
increasing weakness, xv. 91.
Nihilist, the, his attitude to the world, xv. 90.
Niobe, the heart-moving fate of, ii. 56.
Nobility, the mark of a noble soul, vii. 175.
— in what respects we excel the Greeks in, ix. 201 ; a
distinguishing fact of, 250.
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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Nobility, the ultimate nobility of character in man, x. 89; the
cause of there being so little found among men,
229; the indication of, 229.
— the danger of the noble man, xi. 48 ; the hero in the
soul, 49; thus wisheth the type of noble soul—they
desire to have nothing gratuitously, least of all life
(Zarathustra), 243; a new nobility is needed
which shall inscribe anew the word "noble " on
new tables, 247 ; your "children's land" shall ye
love: let this love be your new nobility, 248; what
passes for, as false and foul, above all the blood
—thanks to old evil diseases and worse curers,
297.
— profound suffering makes noble: it separates, xii. 248;
signs of, 249; how recognised, 255; the noble
soul has reverence for itself, 256; What is Noble t
(Chap, ix. ) 223-64.
— the " truthful" as the party cry of, xiii. 24; the nuances
which, for instance, the Greek nobility imports
into all the words by which it distinguishes the
common people from itself, 36.
— The Noble Man, (Sec. iii. Pt. i. Bk. iv. ) xv. 350-60;
the only nobility is that of birth and blood, 353;
what constitutes, 354-7; war should be made
against all namby-pamby ideas of, 358.
Nobility, the. See under " Aristocracy. "
Nobility of disposition, vi. 357.
Noise, in applause, x. 196; danger in the voice, 199;
my antipathy, 199.
Nonsense, pleasure in, vi. 191.
Noontide, a reflection, vii. 350.
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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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NOONTIDE—OBEDIENCE
Noontide (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 336-40 ; the sign—
this is my morning, my day beginneth; arise now,
arise, thou great noontide I 402.
— the hour of noon for mankind, xvi. 250.
— Nietzsche declareshis life task is to prepare for human-
ity one supreme moment. . . a great noon . . .
xvii. 93.
Northerners less attracted to Protestantism than the Latin
races to Catholicism, xii. 68.
Nourishment, inadequate, often the result of ignorance,
xiv. 42.
— See also under " Nutrition. "
Novalis, quoted on holiness, vi. 148.
Novelist, a recipe for becoming a good, vi. 167.
Novelists, mummery in, xiv. 67.
Number, as perspective form, xv. 18.
Numbers, the laws of, vi. 33-5
— Zarathustra—where force is, there beeometh number the
master: it hath more force, xi. 228.
Nutrition, its importance to humanity, xvii. 29; cookery,
30; alcoholic drinks and tobacco, 31; non-al-
coholic drinks and diet, 32; locality and climate
next-of-kin to, 33; its importance reiterated, 52;
alluded to, 142.
Oath, a formula of, recommended, ix. 163.
Obedience, he who cannot command himself must obey, xi.
243-
— indicated in Kant's Morals, xii. 106; the apparent
essentiality of long-continued, 107 ; as the moral
imperative of nature, 108; the need created by,
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Daren 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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120; the moral hypocrisy of the commanding
class, 121.
Ober-Engadine, visitors to, xvii. 1.
Objectivity, no true art without, i. 44.
— the eternal objective, v. 45; and historical writing,
50; justice and, 52.
— the product of education and habit, ix. 109-10.
— an analytical description ofthe objective spirit, xii. 139—
42; as a disguise for the paralysis of the will,
145-
— the moral canon at the root of, xiii. 80; the ability
to have the pros and cons in one's power, 152.
— as a show word, xiv. 67; we objective people, 96; de-
fined and characterised, 342 ; regarded as the
disintegration of the will, 367.
Obscurantists, the, the essential feature of their black art,
vii. 24.
Obscurity, the hidden men, ix. 359.
— circumstances favourable to misunderstanding, xii.
40.
— See also under " Masks. "
Observances, the wide training-ground of the intellect,
ix. 46; the Brahmins and their estimate of, 94.
Observation, examples of defective powers of, vii. 186.
Odysseus, the typical Hellene, i. 87.
CEdipus, his terrible fate, i. 35; again, 40; as the glory
0/passivity, 72-5.
Offenbach, the genius and music of, xv. 270.
— his music, xvi. 60.
Old age, the philosopher and, ix. 368-72.
Old and New Tables (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 239-63.
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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OLD—ORATOR
Old Testament. See "Testament, the Old. "
Olive Mount, On the (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 209-13.
Olympian world, the, its dream birth, i. 35; the evolu-
tion of the thearchy of joy, 35.
One's self, when it is time to vow fidelity to, vii. 357.
Opera, the, the culture of, i. 142; is the birth of the
critical layman, not of the artist, 145; the
postulate of a false belief concerning the
artistic process, 146-7; its characteristics, 148;
its fatal influence on music, 150.
— the erroneous conception of aesthetics, ii. 42.
— vulgarity and Italian, x. 108; vulgarity and German,
109; the singing passion, m; relative value
of words and tones in, 113.
Opinions, on hiding behind, v. 103. .
— on sticking to, vi. 363; the congelation of, into
convictions, 404-5.
— and the tailor's philosophy, vii. 157; final opinion
on, 161.
— of opponents, ix. 314.
— compared in importance with taste, x. 76; the
significance attached to the reputation for
having fixed or unchangeable, 231; the action
of psychological necessity on one's, 240.
— the test to be applied to, xii. 8; the inconvenience
of changing, 93.
— the most lasting of all things, xv. 103.
Opponents, the opinions of, ix. 314.
Optimism considered as a sign of declining vigour, i. 8.
— the wearisome hackneyed term, vi. 43.
Orator, the, the school of, ix. 283.
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.
I
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
120; the moral hypocrisy of the commanding
class, 121.
Ober-Engadine, visitors to, xvii. 1.
Objectivity, no true art without, i. 44.
— the eternal objective, v. 45; and historical writing,
50; justice and, 52.
— the product of education and habit, ix. 109-10.
— an analytical description ofthe objective spirit, xii. 139-
42; as a disguise for the paralysis of the will,
145-
— the moral canon at the root of, xiii. 80; the ability
to have the pros and cons in one's power, 152.
— as a show word, xiv. 67; we objective people, 96; de-
fined and characterised, 342 ; regarded as the
disintegration of the will, 367.
Obscurantists, the, the essential feature of their black art,
vii. 24.
Obscurity, the hidden men, ix. 359.
— circumstances favourable to misunderstanding, xii.
40.
— See also under " Masks. "
Observances, the wide training-ground of the intellect,
ix. 46; the Brahmins and their estimate of, 94.
Observation, examples of defective powers of, vii. 186.
Odysseus, the typical Hellene, i. 87.
(Edipus, his terrible fate, i. 35; again, 40; as the glory
of passivity, 72-5.
Offenbach, the genius and music of, xv. 270.
— his music, xvi. 60.
Old age, the philosopher and, ix. 368-72.
Old and New Tables (Zarathustra's discourse), xL 239-63.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II. Early Greek Philosophy. III. 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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OLD—ORATOR
Old Testament. See "Testament, the Old. "
Olive Mount, On the (Zarathustra's discourse), xi.
Genealogy of Morals. XIV, Will to Power, i. XV, Witt to Power,
ii. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecce Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
for new philosophers, 382; spiritual freedom,
384.
Nietzsche, his principle regarding God as spirit, xv. 40; his
view of truth, 49; his question—why should
an irrefutable assumption necessarily be true?
49; anti-Darwin, 158-60; and the man of the
future, 160; his opposition to Socialism, 206-9;
my future, 238; art in The Birth of Tragedy,
289-92; the type of my disciples, 333; opposed
to happiness, a la Spinoza, or a la Epicurus,
334; his desire to naturalise asceticism, 336; /
teach that . . . A single individual may justify
whole millenniums of existence, 386; his experi-
ences towards 1876, 389 ; the formula—" Diony-
sian" as a justification of life, 390; standpoint
from which his values are determined, 391; my
five noes, 401; / have taught the knowledge of
such terrible things, 405 ; the first to discover the
tragic, 406; we believe in Olympus, not in the
man on the Cross, 407; from the military school
of the soul, 410; his new road to an affirmative
attitude, 411-3; describes his "Dionysian"
world as will to power and nothing else, 432.
— the authority of posthumous men in being misunder-
stood, xvi. 3 ; rungs in my ladder, 7 ; the formula
of my happiness—a yea, a nay, a straight line, a
goal, 8; my impossible people, 60 ; on the reception
given to his concept Beyond Good and Evil, 90;
my concept of Freedom, 94; and of Genius, 101;
his appreciation of Dostoiewsky and Stendhal,
104; progress in my sense, 108 ; his conceptions,
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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NIETZSCHE
of a certain degree of immortality for his works—
of the aphorism—of himself as stylist—of Zara-
thustra, xvi. i11; things I owe to the ancients,
(Chap, x. ) 112-20; his books, 112; his style,
112; his indebtedness to the Romans and the
Greeks, 113; to Plato, 114; Thucydides, 114;
Machiavelli, 114-5 . his mission to rediscoverthe
Greeks, 115-6; the first to take Dionysus seriously,
117 ; the Hellenic symbolism of sex, 119; the last
disciple of Dionysus, 120; the prophet of The
Eternal Recurrence, 120; the day after to-morrow
belongs to me, 125 ; on the conditions under which
he may be understood, 125; his preordained
readers, 126 ;we hyperboreans, 127 ; the problem
he sets himself in The Antichrist, 128; man-
kind's corruption revealed, 130; his antithesis—
the theologian, 133; war on the theological
instinct, 134; ourselves—we free spirits—already
a transvaluation of all values, 139; his contempt
for the man of to-day, 176; pronounces judg-
ment on Christianity, 230; would fain write his
eternal accusation on all walls, 231; everything
has returned—and this last thought of thine that
all these things will return, 248; to the beloved
stranger, 249; on the world of energy, 249; on
the eternal recurrence, 250; the hour of noon,
250; my doctrine, 251; the best ballast, 252;
reincarnation, 253; leading tendencies, 254; a
religion, 255 ; for the mightiest thought many
millenniums may be necessary, 2 56; my predecessors
—Heraclitus, Empedocles, Spinoza, Goethe, 273.
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
Nietzsche, his intention in Ecce Homo, xvii. i; would prefer
to be a satyr to a saint, 2 ; his conception of
philosophy, 3; the place Zarathustra holds in
his lifework, 3-4; on his four-and-fortieth year,
7 ; his existence unique in its fatefulness, 9; the
death of his father, 9 ; resigned his professorship
at Bale, 1879,10; The Wanderer and his Shadow
written at Naumburg, winter 1879, 10; The
Dawn of Day at Genoa, 10; his nerve symptoms,
11; his eye trouble, 11; his gift of observation,
ir ; a decadent and the reverse, 12; his will
to health and to life, 12 ; describes himself, 13;
his ancestors, Polish noblemen, 14; his father,
1813-1849, 15; his birthday coincides with
the Emperor William's, hence his Christian
names, 15; his privileges, 15; his father's yea
to life, 15; his temperament, 16; his pupil
Stein's compliment, 17; why he reproaches the
pitiful, 18 ; Zarathustra's temptation quoted, 18;
his form of retaliation, 19; causes of his freedom
from resentment, 20; on resentment, 21; his
Russian fatalism and distaste of change, 22; at
heart a warrior, 23; his war tactics, 23; on his
attacks on Wagner and Strauss, 24; and Chris-
tianity, 24; his sense of cleanliness, 25; pure
habits and honesty towards himself among the
conditions of his existence, 25; his need of
solitude, 26; Zarathustra quoted, 26; Why lam
so wise, 9-27; Why I am so clever, 28-54;
why he knows more things than other people, 28;
without religious difficulties, 28; unacquainted
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, ail-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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with atheism, xvii. 28; the importance of nutri-
tion, 29 ; nutrition formulated, 29 ; on cookery—
English, German, 30; alcoholic drinks not suited
to, 30; his antipodes live in Munich, 31; has
experienced what vegetarianism means, 31;
effects of alcohol on, 32; on diet, 32; indica-
tions to his morality, 33; his susceptibility to
climatic influences, 33; his illness compelled
him to reflect on such matters, 34; unable to
recall one happy reminiscence of childhood or
youth, 34; idealism as the curse of his life,'35;
a philologist through a blunder, 35; brought
to reason through illness, 35 ;reading as a means
of recuperation, 36; an allusion to his Laertiana,
37; his favourite books, a few—a library makes
him ill, 37; his belief only in French culture,
37 ; the example of Cosima Wagner, 38; French
affinities, 38; the happy accidents of his life,
38; Stendhal and Heine, 39; Byron's Manfred,
40; his overture to Manfred, 40; his estimate
of Shakespeare, 40; Bacon versus Shakespeare,
40-1; his most intimate relationship with
Wagner, 41; Wagner and Paris, 42; Wagner's
condescension to the Germans, 43; effects of
Tristan und Isolde, 43; a Wagnerite from that
moment, 43; Wagner his greatest benefactor,
44; his exactions from music, 45; would let
all music go if he could keep Chopin, 45; ex-
ceptions, 45; his musical impressions, 46;
taste—the instinct of defence, 46; restraint,
47; intercourse with books, 48; has known
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
Nietzsche, his intention in Ecu Homo, xvii. i; would prefer
to be a satyr to a saint, 2; his conception of
philosophy, 3; the place Zarathustra holds in
his lifework, 3-4; on his four-and-fortieth year,
7; his existence unique in its fatefulness, 9; the
death of his father, 9 ; resigned his professorship
at Bale, 1879,10; The Wanderer and his Shadmv
written at Naumburg, winter 1879, 1O, Tfc
Dawn of Day at Genoa, 10 ; his nerve symptoms,
11; his eye trouble, 11; his gift of observation,
11 ; a decadent and the reverse, 12; his will
to health and to life, 12 ; describes himself, 13;
his ancestors, Polish noblemen, 14 ; his father,
1813-1849, 15; his birthday coincides with
the Emperor William's, hence his Christian
names, 15 ; his privileges, 15 ; his father's yea
to life, 15; his temperament, 16; his pupil
Stein's compliment, 17; why he reproaches the
pitiful, 18; Zarathustra's temptation quoted, 18;
his form of retaliation, 19; causes of his freedom
from resentment, 20; on resentment, 21; his
Russian fatalism and distaste of change, 22; at
heart a warrior, 23; his war tactics, 23; on his
attacks on Wagner and Strauss, 24; and Chris-
tianity, 24; his sense of cleanliness, 25; pure
habits and honesty towards himself among the
conditions of his existence, 25; his need of
solitude, 26; Zarathustra quoted, 26; Why I am
so wise, 9-27; Why I am so clever, 28-54;
why he knows more things than other people, 28;
without religious difficulties, 28; unacquainted
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
0f Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, all-too-
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with atheism, xvii. 28; the importance of nutri-
tion, 29 ; nutrition formulated, 29; on cookery—
English, German, 30; alcoholic drinks not suited
to, 30; his antipodes live in Munich, 31; has
experienced what vegetarianism means, 31;
effects of alcohol on, 32; on diet, 32; indica-
tions to his morality, 33; his susceptibility to
climatic influences, 33; his illness compelled
him to reflect on such matters, 34; unable to
recall one happy reminiscence of childhood or
youth, 34; idealism as the curse of his life,'35;
a philologist through a blunder, 35; brought
to reason through illness, 35 ;reading as a means
of recuperation, 36; an allusion to his Laertiana,
37; his favourite books, a few—a library makes
him ill, 37; his belief only in French culture,
37 ; the example of Cosima Wagner, 38; French
affinities, 38; the happy accidents of his life,
38; Stendhal and Heine, 39; Byron's Manfred,
40; his overture to Manfred, 40; his estimate
of Shakespeare, 40; Bacon versus Shakespeare,
40-1; his most intimate relationship with
Wagner, 41; Wagner and Paris, 42; Wagner's
condescension to the Germans, 43; effects of
Tristan und Isolde, 43; a Wagnerite from that
moment, 43; Wagner his greatest benefactor,
44; his exactions from music, 45; would let
all music go if he could keep Chopin, 45; ex-
ceptions, 45; his musical impressions, 46;
taste—the instinct of defence, 46; restraint,
47; intercourse with books, 48; has known
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
Nietzsche, his intention in Eece Homo, xvii. i; would prefer
to be a satyr to a saint, 2 ; his conception of
philosophy, 3; the place Zarathustra holds in
his lifework, 3-4; on his four-and-fortieth year,
7; his existence unique in its fatefulness, 9; the
death of his father, 9 ; resigned his professorship
at Bale, 1879, 1O, The Wanderer and his Shadmv
written at Naumburg, winter 1879, I0; The
Dawn of Day at Genoa, 10; his nerve symptoms,
11; his eye trouble, 11; his gift of observation,
1 1 ; a decadent and the reverse, 12; his will
to health and to life, 12 ; describes himself, 13;
his ancestors, Polish noblemen, 14 ; his father,
1813-1849, 15; his birthday coincides with
the Emperor William's, hence his Christian
names, 15 ; his privileges, 15 ; his father's yea
to life, 15; his temperament, 16; his pupil
Stein's compliment, 17; why he reproaches the
pitiful, 18; Zarathustra's temptation quoted, 18;
his form of retaliation, 19; causes of his freedom
from resentment, 20; on resentment, 21; his
Russian fatalism and distaste of change, 22; at
heart a warrior, 23; his war tactics, 23; on his
attacks on Wagner and Strauss, 24 ; and Chris-
tianity, 24; his sense of cleanliness, 25; pure
habits and honesty towards himself among the
conditions of his existence, 25; his need of
solitude, 26; Zarathustra quoted, 26; Why I am
so wise, 9-27; Why I am so clever, 28-54;
why he knows more things than other people, 28;
without religious difficulties, 28; unacquainted
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
»f Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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NIETZSCHE
with atheism, xvii. 28; the importance of nutri-
tion, 29 ; nutrition formulated, 29; on cookery—
English, German, 30; alcoholic drinks not suited
to, 30; his antipodes live in Munich, 31; has
experienced what vegetarianism means, 31;
effects of alcohol on, 32; on diet, 32; indica-
tions to his morality, 33; his susceptibility to
climatic influences, 33; his illness compelled
him to reflect on such matters, 34; unable to
recall one happy reminiscence of childhood or
youth, 34; idealism as the curse of his life,'35;
a philologist through a blunder, 35; brought
to reason through illness, 35 ;reading as a means
of recuperation, 36; an allusion to his Laertiana,
37; his favourite books, a few—a library makes
him ill, 37; his belief only in French culture,
37 ; the example of Cosima Wagner, 38; French
affinities, 38; the happy accidents of his life,
38; Stendhal and Heine, 39; Byron's Manfred,
40; his overture to Manfred, 40; his estimate
of Shakespeare, 40; Bacon versus Shakespeare,
40-1; his most intimate relationship with
Wagner, 41; Wagner and Paris, 42; Wagner's
condescension to the Germans, 43; effects of
Tristan und Isolde, 43; a Wagnerite from that
moment, 43; Wagner his greatest benefactor,
44; his exactions from music, 45; would let
all music go if he could keep Chopin, 45; ex-
ceptions, 45; his musical impressions, 46;
taste—the instinct of defence, 46; restraint,
47; intercourse with books, 48; has known
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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people read to ruins at thirty, xvii. 48; on becom-
ing what one is, 48-9; his instinctive traits, 50; his
mental calm, 50; never bothered about honours,
women, or money, 51; how he became a uni-
versity professor, 51; the inconceivable import-
ance of diet, climate, and one's mode of recrea-
tion, reiterated, 52 ; his freedom from morbidity,
52 ; and fanaticism, 53 ; declares his life to have
been easiest when it exacted the heaviest
penalties from him, 53; his formula of great-
ness—amorfati, 54; Why I write such excellent
books, 55-130; his time not yet come—some
are born posthumously, 55; early criticisms, 56;
general remarks on books, 57; his would-be
interpreters, 58; not successful at being pompous,
59; his small ears denote the anti-ass, 60; his
privileges as a writer, 60 ; opinions of acquaint-
ances on his writings, 61; the perfect reader,
62; his art of style, 62-3; The seven seals as
an example of style, 64; the propositions on which
the whole world are agreed are to me but ingenious
blunders, 64 ; the first psychologist of The Eternal
Feminine, 65 ; his definition of love, 65 ; women's
needs, 66; the truth about emancipation of
women, 66; as psychologist, 67; Beyond Good
and Evil quoted—the genius of the heart, 67;
on The Birth of Tragedy (1872), 68 et sea. ;
his name may be replaced for Wagner's in the
essay "Wagner in Bayreuth," 74; on Thoughts
out of Season, 75 et seq. ; their evidence of his
warlike prowess, 75-6; Wagner and Schopen-
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 0f Season, i. V, Thoughts out
of Season, ii. VI, Human, ail-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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NIETZSCHE
hauer in, as types representing Nietzsche, xvii.
76; his early reviewers, 77; the after-effects of his
essay on David Strauss proved invaluable, 79;
on Human, all-too-Human, 82 tt seq. ; and
Voltaire, both grandees of intellect, 83; first
days at Bayreuth, 84; his sudden departure, 85;
his return to himself, 86-8; the crossing of his
Human, all-too-Human and Wagner's Parsifal,
89; and Dr. Paul R£e, 90; on The Dawn of
Day, 91 etseq. ; his campaign against morality
opened therein, 91; on Thus spake Zarathustra,
96 et seq. ; his life task—to prepare for humanity
one supreme moment, a Great Noon, 93; on
Joyful Wisdom, 95; his first conceptions of
eternal recurrence in 1881, 96; the omen of its
coming, 97; the Hymn to Life, 97,209; his belief
that everything decisive comes to life in defiance
of every obstacle, 98; circumstances in which
Zarathustra originated, 98-9; his experience of
inspiration, 101-3; the composition of Zara-
thustra, 104; periods of industry in years of
unparalleled distress—the rancour of greatness,
105; his psychological view of himself at the
period of writing Zarathustra, 105; describes
his Zarathustra, 107 ; the concept "Superman,"
108; the idea of " Dionysus," 109; The Night
Song quoted, 110; Ariadne—who knows Ariadne
but I1 112; determines his life task, 113; the
yea-saying part of his task accomplished in
Zarathustra, he turns to the negative portion—
the transvaluation of all values, 114-5; on
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,
U. XVI, Antichrist. XVII, Ecc e Homo.
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
Beyond Good and Evil, xvii. 114-6; The Genea-
logy of Morals, 116-8; The Twilight of the
Idols, 118-21; The Case of Wagner, 121-30;
his suffering from music, 121; declares—I have
loved Wagner, 122; and the Germans—they
will attempt to make a great fate give birth to a
mouse, 126 ; his readers and listeners—Russians,
Scandinavians and Frenchmen, 126; his ambi-
tion to be considered a despiser of Germany, 128;
Why I am a fatality, 131-43; his foreseen destiny,
131; his discovery of truth, 132; the meaning
of the word Zarathustra in the mouth of the
first immoralist, 133 ; the two negations involved
in his title of im moralist, 134; the title as a badge
of honour, 138; the first to feel Christian morality
beneath him, 138; his unmasking of it, 139.
Night, a reverie on, vii. 189.
Night Song, The (of Zarathustra), xi. 124-6.
Nihilism,would doing away with venerations be? x. 284-5 ,
as showing the need of belief, 286.
— as yet humanity hath no goal (Zarathustra), xi. 68.
— lies in our being tired of man, xiii. 44.
— its triumph inevitable, xiv. 1; the will to power as
a counter movement to, 2; the logical conclu-
sion of current values, 2; European Nihilism,
(Bk. i) 5-109; plan of the book, 5-7; denned
as the absolute repudiation of worth, purpose,
desirability, 5; as the outcome of the valuations
and interpretations of existence which have pre-
vailed hitherto, 8-22; as the result of fully de-
veloped truthfulness, 8; consequences of, as a
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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result of moral valuation, xiv. 10 ; pessimism as
a preparatory state of, 11; as a psychological con-
dition, 12-4; disillusionment in regard to pur-
pose of existence a cause of, 12; the final form of,
the denial of the metaphysical world, 14; as an
intermediary pathological condition, 15; the ex-
tremest form of, 16; respect in which it might be
a divine view of the world, 17; on the question
—to what purposed 19; the perfect Nihilist, 20;
active and passive, 21; the genesis of the Nihi-
list, 22; further causes of, 23-31 ; convictions
of the philosophic Nihilist, 30; the Nihilistic
movement as an expression of decadence, 31-47;
not a cause but only a rationale of decadence,
35; The Crisis: Nihilism and the Idea of Re-
currence, 47-54; the unhealthiest kind of man
as the soil out of which it grew, 53; periods of
European Nihilism—obscurity, light, three great
passions, catastrophes, 54; the possibility of its
being a good sign, 92; an antidote no longer
so urgently needed, 94; The Physiology of Nihil-
istic Religions, 129-32; systematic Nihilism in
action, and Christianity, 203; its great counter-
feit courage, 302.
Nihilism may be a symptom of increasing strength or of
increasing weakness, xv. 91.
Nihilist, the, his attitude to the world, xv. 90.
Niobe, the heart-moving fate of, ii. 56.
Nobility, the mark of a noble soul, vii. 175.
— in what respects we excel the Greeks in, ix. 201 ; a
distinguishing fact of, 250.
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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Nobility, the ultimate nobility of character in man, x. 89; the
cause of there being so little found among men,
229; the indication of, 229.
— the danger of the noble man, xi. 48 ; the hero in the
soul, 49; thus wisheth the type of noble soul—they
desire to have nothing gratuitously, least of all life
(Zarathustra), 243; a new nobility is needed
which shall inscribe anew the word "noble " on
new tables, 247 ; your "children's land" shall ye
love: let this love be your new nobility, 248; what
passes for, as false and foul, above all the blood
—thanks to old evil diseases and worse curers,
297.
— profound suffering makes noble: it separates, xii. 248;
signs of, 249; how recognised, 255; the noble
soul has reverence for itself, 256; What is Noble t
(Chap, ix. ) 223-64.
— the " truthful" as the party cry of, xiii. 24; the nuances
which, for instance, the Greek nobility imports
into all the words by which it distinguishes the
common people from itself, 36.
— The Noble Man, (Sec. iii. Pt. i. Bk. iv. ) xv. 350-60;
the only nobility is that of birth and blood, 353;
what constitutes, 354-7; war should be made
against all namby-pamby ideas of, 358.
Nobility, the. See under " Aristocracy. "
Nobility of disposition, vi. 357.
Noise, in applause, x. 196; danger in the voice, 199;
my antipathy, 199.
Nonsense, pleasure in, vi. 191.
Noontide, a reflection, vii. 350.
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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NOONTIDE—OBEDIENCE
Noontide (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 336-40 ; the sign—
this is my morning, my day beginneth; arise now,
arise, thou great noontide I 402.
— the hour of noon for mankind, xvi. 250.
— Nietzsche declareshis life task is to prepare for human-
ity one supreme moment. . . a great noon . . .
xvii. 93.
Northerners less attracted to Protestantism than the Latin
races to Catholicism, xii. 68.
Nourishment, inadequate, often the result of ignorance,
xiv. 42.
— See also under " Nutrition. "
Novalis, quoted on holiness, vi. 148.
Novelist, a recipe for becoming a good, vi. 167.
Novelists, mummery in, xiv. 67.
Number, as perspective form, xv. 18.
Numbers, the laws of, vi. 33-5
— Zarathustra—where force is, there beeometh number the
master: it hath more force, xi. 228.
Nutrition, its importance to humanity, xvii. 29; cookery,
30; alcoholic drinks and tobacco, 31; non-al-
coholic drinks and diet, 32; locality and climate
next-of-kin to, 33; its importance reiterated, 52;
alluded to, 142.
Oath, a formula of, recommended, ix. 163.
Obedience, he who cannot command himself must obey, xi.
243-
— indicated in Kant's Morals, xii. 106; the apparent
essentiality of long-continued, 107 ; as the moral
imperative of nature, 108; the need created by,
Human, ii. VIII, Case of Wagner. IX, Daren 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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120; the moral hypocrisy of the commanding
class, 121.
Ober-Engadine, visitors to, xvii. 1.
Objectivity, no true art without, i. 44.
— the eternal objective, v. 45; and historical writing,
50; justice and, 52.
— the product of education and habit, ix. 109-10.
— an analytical description ofthe objective spirit, xii. 139—
42; as a disguise for the paralysis of the will,
145-
— the moral canon at the root of, xiii. 80; the ability
to have the pros and cons in one's power, 152.
— as a show word, xiv. 67; we objective people, 96; de-
fined and characterised, 342 ; regarded as the
disintegration of the will, 367.
Obscurantists, the, the essential feature of their black art,
vii. 24.
Obscurity, the hidden men, ix. 359.
— circumstances favourable to misunderstanding, xii.
40.
— See also under " Masks. "
Observances, the wide training-ground of the intellect,
ix. 46; the Brahmins and their estimate of, 94.
Observation, examples of defective powers of, vii. 186.
Odysseus, the typical Hellene, i. 87.
CEdipus, his terrible fate, i. 35; again, 40; as the glory
0/passivity, 72-5.
Offenbach, the genius and music of, xv. 270.
— his music, xvi. 60.
Old age, the philosopher and, ix. 368-72.
Old and New Tables (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 239-63.
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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OLD—ORATOR
Old Testament. See "Testament, the Old. "
Olive Mount, On the (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 209-13.
Olympian world, the, its dream birth, i. 35; the evolu-
tion of the thearchy of joy, 35.
One's self, when it is time to vow fidelity to, vii. 357.
Opera, the, the culture of, i. 142; is the birth of the
critical layman, not of the artist, 145; the
postulate of a false belief concerning the
artistic process, 146-7; its characteristics, 148;
its fatal influence on music, 150.
— the erroneous conception of aesthetics, ii. 42.
— vulgarity and Italian, x. 108; vulgarity and German,
109; the singing passion, m; relative value
of words and tones in, 113.
Opinions, on hiding behind, v. 103. .
— on sticking to, vi. 363; the congelation of, into
convictions, 404-5.
— and the tailor's philosophy, vii. 157; final opinion
on, 161.
— of opponents, ix. 314.
— compared in importance with taste, x. 76; the
significance attached to the reputation for
having fixed or unchangeable, 231; the action
of psychological necessity on one's, 240.
— the test to be applied to, xii. 8; the inconvenience
of changing, 93.
— the most lasting of all things, xv. 103.
Opponents, the opinions of, ix. 314.
Optimism considered as a sign of declining vigour, i. 8.
— the wearisome hackneyed term, vi. 43.
Orator, the, the school of, ix. 283.
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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120; the moral hypocrisy of the commanding
class, 121.
Ober-Engadine, visitors to, xvii. 1.
Objectivity, no true art without, i. 44.
— the eternal objective, v. 45; and historical writing,
50; justice and, 52.
— the product of education and habit, ix. 109-10.
— an analytical description ofthe objective spirit, xii. 139-
42; as a disguise for the paralysis of the will,
145-
— the moral canon at the root of, xiii. 80; the ability
to have the pros and cons in one's power, 152.
— as a show word, xiv. 67; we objective people, 96; de-
fined and characterised, 342 ; regarded as the
disintegration of the will, 367.
Obscurantists, the, the essential feature of their black art,
vii. 24.
Obscurity, the hidden men, ix. 359.
— circumstances favourable to misunderstanding, xii.
40.
— See also under " Masks. "
Observances, the wide training-ground of the intellect,
ix. 46; the Brahmins and their estimate of, 94.
Observation, examples of defective powers of, vii. 186.
Odysseus, the typical Hellene, i. 87.
(Edipus, his terrible fate, i. 35; again, 40; as the glory
of passivity, 72-5.
Offenbach, the genius and music of, xv. 270.
— his music, xvi. 60.
Old age, the philosopher and, ix. 368-72.
Old and New Tables (Zarathustra's discourse), xL 239-63.
The volumes referred to under numbers are as follow :—I, Birth
of Tragedy. II. Early Greek Philosophy. III. 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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OLD—ORATOR
Old Testament. See "Testament, the Old. "
Olive Mount, On the (Zarathustra's discourse), xi.
