No More Learning

— his appearance and influence, xii. 121; his meeting
with Goethe, 149; a remark made to Madame
de Stael on women, 184; as a master of new
modes of speech, 218-9.
— the most unique and violent anachronism that ever
existed—the synthesis of monster and superman,
xiii. 56; the coming century will follow in his
footsteps, 225; alluded to, 224.
— his attitude towards civilisation, xiv. 34; his attempt
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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to overcome the eighteenth century, 87; alluded
to, 23.
Napoleon, takes rank amongst the greatest men, xv. 52 ; his
warning, not to judge of the worth of a man by
one isolated act, 198; as a scorner of honour*
205; represents an extension of the soul's do-
main, 269; made possible by the Revolution,
314; a conqueror of the eighteenth century, 397;
Taine on Dante, Michelangelo, and Napoleon,
397-
— his relation to the age in which he appeared, xvi. 102;
showed himself stronger than society, 104; com-
pared with Rousseau to illustrate Nietzsche's
sense of progress, 108; no greater event in
Goethe's life than, 11o; Goethe's concept of, 11o.
— alluded to, xvii. 126.
Narrator, the, in society, vi. 277.
Narrow-minded, the, the ingenuity of, ix. 303.
National army, the, vi. 320.
National genius, the characteristics of English, French,
German, and Italian, xv. 269.
Nationalities, tendencies to their destruction, and the rise of
European man, vi. 346-8.
Nations, the prestige of, assigned by its men of culture,
ix. 200; how lustre may be gained by, 359.
— Zarathustra on the death of peoples, xi. 54.
— a definition of a nation, xii. 94.
— another, xiii. 226.
Natural, the, the reasoning of its aspirants, x. 200.
— the simplification of man in the nineteenth century,
xiv. 98.
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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NATURAL—NATURE
Natural history, how it should be expounded, vii. 98.
Naturalism, on, xiv. 67.
Natural law, a phrase of superstition, vii. 16.
— on opposite modes of interpreting, xii. 32.
Natural philosophy, as a world exposition, not a world ex-
planation, xii. 21; Plato and the modern pro-
fessors of, 21.
Naturalness, the advance towards, xiv. 101; Paganism
versus Christianity, 127.
Nature, the only master for the artist, v. 92; and the artist
and philosopher, 177; means to help, 179.
— pneumatic explanation of, by metaphysics, vi. 19;
the world as ruled by, through pleasure, 265.
— in the mirror of, vii. 35 ; religious and irreligious im-
pression of, 49; all too beautiful and human,
162; on finding our double in, 359.
— whence the idea of the goodness and malignity of, ix.
24; the purposes in, 129; in the great silence of,
307; the embellishments of science, 311; moral-
ists and the laws of, 312.
— the feelings of the lover toward the functions of, x.
97; on guarding our beliefs respecting, 151-3;
its grandeur loved, because human grandeur is
lacking, 186; the voice and kinship of, 188;
against the disparagers of, 229.
— the desire to live according to Nature, xii. 13;
opposite modes of interpretation regarding
Nature's conformity to law, 32.
— our attitude in the nineteenth century as more
natural, xiv. 99; and the hypothesis of divine
providence, 199; vestiges of the depreciation
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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of, through moral transcendence, 245; Rous-
seau's concept of, 274; as opposed by morality
in her endeavour to arrive at a higher type, 321.
Nature, The Will to Power in, (Pt. ii. Bk. iii. ) xv. 109-238;
the reason men resort to, is to get away from
themselves, 353.
— Morality as the Enemy of, (Chap, iv. ) xvi. 26-32;
from the standpoint of the born psychologist
and artist, 65.
Natures, of profound people, vi. 392; lonely people,
393; without melody, 393.
— the difference between sociable and solitary, ix. 358.
— our noble and ignoble, x. 37.
Naumburg, Nietzsche's winter there, 1879, xvii. 10; the
poor wine of, 31.
Nay, the saying of. See under "Negation. "
Necessity, the doctrine of. See under " Irresponsibility. "
Need, the nature of, x. 196.
Needers of art, described, vii. 84; what they desire from
art, as compared with the Greeks, 84-5.
Negation, Looking Aside—let that be my sole, x. 213.
— nay, as belonging to the market-place, xi. 58.
— the ascetic priest, xiii. 154-6.
— the rediscovery of a road to a nay, xiv. 45-7.
— my five noes, xv. 401.
Negroes, pain has not the same effect on them as on
Europeans, xiii. 76.
Neighbour, myself do I offer unto my love and my neigh-
bour as myself, (Zarathustra), xi. 105; Zara-
thustra's new table—be not considerate of thy
neighbour—man must be overleapt, 243.
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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NEIGHBOUR—NIETZSCHE
Neighbour, the value of my neighbour's welfare and my
own, xiv. 221.
Neighbour love (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 68-70.
Neighbours, our, vii. 128.
Nero, the last words of, x. 75.
— type of the degenerate as ruler, xv. 313.
Nervous disorders, their portent, xiv. 35.
New, the, our natural aversion to, xii. 113.
New life, the, two principles of, vii. 351.
New Testament, the. See "Testament, the New. "
New Year, the favourite thought for—to be at any time
hereafter only a yea sayer, x. 213.
Newspaper, the, the peculiar educational aims of the
present culminate in, iii. 41.
Newton, and a quarrel between Bentley and Hare, viii.
141.
— and the German natural philosopher, ix. 199.
— alluded to, x. 75.
Nibelung, the, the monsters of, alluded to, xiv. 67.
Niebuhr, and the super-historical standpoint, v. 12; a
confession of, 25; his reproach of Plato, 184.
— quoted, viii. 8.
— instanced, xiii. 222.
Nietzsche, an attempt at self-criticism, i. 1-15.
— the need and desires which led him to the writings
of Schopenhauer, v. 108; the ready trust in-
spired by him, 114; Schopenhauer as the ful-
filment of the hopes and desires of, 118.
— on his critics, vi. 1; a self-criticism, 1-3; his vision
of free spirits, 3-12; his Utopia, 333.
— a re'sume' of his work and thought leading up to the
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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new outlook of 1886, vii. 1-10; his ever-recur-
ring vision of the future, 96-7; et in Arcadia
ego< 346; at noontide, 350; autobiographical
aphorism—at once richer and poorer, 354.
Nietzsche, wherein Wagner is admired by, viiL 57; and
wherein objections are raised, 59; Wagner as a
danger, 61 ; a music without a future, 63; we
antipodes, 65 ; where Wagner is at home, 68;
Wagner as the apostle of chastity, 70; how
Nietzsche got rid of him, 73; the psychologist
speaks, 75.
— the solitary way of the subterrestrial investigator, ix.
1; on The Dawn of Day, 6; to readers of The
Dawn of Day, 8.
— the inception of The Joyful Wisdom, x. i; fortunate
thought of, for the New Year—to be at any time
hereafter only a yea sayer, 213; a maxim of,
with regard to action, 238; I have given a name
to my suffering and call it " dog," 244; / want
to have my lion and my eagle about me,
245; storms are my danger (the last hour),
245; life has not deceived me (in media vita),
250; his moralitv speaks of living, of bestow-
ing, and of teaching the fellowship of joy, 268;
former misunderstanding and new views con-
cerning Romanticism, 331-5; on the matter
and manner of his writing, 348-51.
— on the difficulty of being understood, xii. 40; as
the last disciple and initiate of Dionysus, 262;
apostrophises his own thoughts, 263.
— on the development of his thoughts, xiii.
2; his
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
»/ Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, •Human, ail-too-
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boyish questions as to the origin of evil, 4;
owed his first impulse to publish some of his
hypotheses to Dr. Paul Re'e's The Origin of the
Moral Emotions, 5; from Schopenhauer to the
contempt of pity, 7; first explorations in mor-
ality, 10; on the obscurity of his writings, 12;
on reading as an art, 13; note on the study of
the history of morals, 57; a scheme of punish-
ment which suggested itself to Nietzsche, 94;
his hypothesis concerning the origin of bad
conscience, 99-118; his reverence for the
ascetic ideal in so far as it is honourable, 205;
his dislike of coquettish bugs and whited
sepulchres, 205.
Nietzsche, on his hitherto published work, xiv. 1-2; as hav-
ing outlived Nihilism in his own soul, 2; The Birth
of Tragedy alluded to by, 73; his feelings at the
sight of Christian moral quackery, 204; what he
protests against, 206 ; a leading doctrine of, con-
cerning moral phenomena, 214; his idea—goals
are wanting, and these must be individuals, 222;
his teaching regarding the herd, 236; my phil-
osophy aims at a new order of rank, not at an in-
dividualistic morality, 237; on his achievement—
I have lent new charms to virtue, 263; on his war
against the Christian ideal, 291; my "pity" 293;
ultimate conclusion—the real man as represent-
ing a higher value than the desirable man, 311;
"Dionysian " wisdom—my innovations, 333 ; my
fight, 334; his principal innovations, 381; my
precursors, 382; the direction of my yearning
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, 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,
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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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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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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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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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
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.