Port-Royal,
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to the understanding of, xii.
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PITY
was meant by Homer in his time, 15 5; his period,
163.
Pity, on the wish to arouse, vi. 68; Plato and the weaken-
ing of the soul by, 68; the thirst for self-grati-
fication, 69; its aims, 103; estimation of, 103.
— how simulated vii. 39; on, 170; the expression of,
regarded as a sign of contempt, 223.
— an analysis of—on " no longer thinking of one's self,"
ix. 141; to what extent we must beware of, 144;
on arousing, 145; happiness in, 146; its demands
on the ego, 147; on becoming more tender, 148;
valued against stoicism, 149; and unfeeling
people, 259; the comedy of, 295.
— regarding, x. 51 ; the effects of, 265 ; the religions of
compassion and smug ease, 206.
— The Pitiful (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 102-5; woe
unto all cooing ones who have not an elevation which
is above their pity, 105; Zarathustra, in poverty
and frozen with the ice of knowledge, mocks at
all pity, 213; in indulging in pity lay my greatest
danger, 226; the soothsayer reappears to Zara-
thustra, and would seduce him to his last sin,
293; heencounters the "ugliestman" whodeclaims
against, 322-6.
— its effect on a man of knowledge, xii. 100; the saint's
pity, 249; as regarded from the heights, 249.
— held in contempt by great minds, xiii. 8; the problem
of, 8-9.
— as more dangerous than any vice, xiv. 46; the view
of objective people, 96 ; Nietzsche's personal feel-
ing in the presence of, 204; on "his pity," 293.
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
Pity, an analysis of, xvi. 131; the praxis of Nihilism,
132; nothing more unhealthy, in the midst
of our unhealthy modernity, than Christian
pity. 133-
— why reproached, xvii. 18; Zarathustra quoted on, 18.
Plank, the small dividing, simile of, 54-5.
Plans, on making, vii 45.
Plastic artist, the, described and contrasted with the epic
poet and the lyrist, i. 46; the antithesis between,
and music, 121-8.
Plato, the typical Hellenic youth prostrate before the scene
of the dying Socrates, i. 106; alluded to, 101.
— the perfect state of, ii. 17; his conception of Hellenic
women, 21 ; the family and the perfect state, 22;
and Aristotle's attack on Horner, 56; the emula-
tion of, 59; as head of the many-sided philo-
sophers, 82; notes on, 168.
— his Phcedrus quoted, iii. 114.
— alluded to, iv. 151.
— and the teaching of children, v. 93; the basis of the
new education and the new state, 93; Niebuhr
and, 184; and the folly of fathers, 185; lost no
dignity whilst a court philosopher, 187; alluded
to, with Brutus, 200.
— his judgment that pity weakens the soul, vi. 68; his
view of tragedy and the tragic poets, 191 ; the
incarnate wish of, 240; a possible discovery of,
241; the old typical Socialist, 344; his ideal state,
345; quoted, 395; alluded to, 170.
— the period of his philosophy, vii. 136; his wide-drawn
dialogues, 183; referred to in an estimate of
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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PLATO
Beethoven, 268; on the effects of abolition of
property, 339; alluded to, 178, 302.
Plato, as all other philosophical architects, built in vain
against morality, ix. 3; and the association of
genius and sanity, 21; and the origin of action,
121; Thucydides and, 172; and actuality, 321;
on dialectic, 335 ; as the philosophical thinker, e. g.
the evil principle, 346 ; the psychological old age
of, 369; what the Greeks derived from, 374; and
the springs of happiness, 382; alluded to, 338,347.
— his aim—the founding of a new religion, x. 182 ; the
modesty which invented the word "philosopher,"
293; his ideomania, 305 ; his idealism, and its
origin, 337.
— his invention of " pure spirit" and " the good in itself,"
a dogmatist error, xii. 2; the effect of a struggle
against Platonism, 3; his aristocratic mode of
thought, and the imperatives of our naturalists,
21; his copy of Aristophanes found under the
pillow of his death-bed, 42; the place of Socra-
tism in the morality of, 11o; and the relative
authority of instinct and reason, 112.
— his contempt for pity, xiii. 8; not to be imagined as
a married man, 135; his aversion to art, 199;
alluded to, 177, 179, 215, 217.
— his arrogation to himself, as leader, of the right to lie,
xiv. 120; his imitation of the Aryan scheme of
community, 125; the taint of Jewish bigotry in,
165; reduced in Nietzsche's books to a carica-
ture, 299; how judged by Epicurus and others,
349; alluded to, 351, 359.
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
Plato, his estimate of the degree of reality, xv. 74; his in-
dictment of Athens under Pericles recalled, 203;
Tkeages quoted—an attitude of mind that must
be reinstated in our midst, 365; comforting
expedients of, 374; his estimate of man's power,
376.
— with Socrates, recognised as a decadent, xvi. 10; never
doubted his right to falsehood, 49; his proposi-
tion that all beauty lures to procreation, 78;
Nietzsche a sceptic regarding, 113; criticised,
114; truth, and the belief that a thing is true,
152; the " holy lie " not absent in, 214; alluded
to, 24.
— the use he made of Socrates, as cypher for himself,
the same as Nietzsche's use of Wagner and Scho-
penhauer in Thoughts out of Season, xvii. 81.
Pleasing, the desire of, vi. 379.
Pleasure, arises out of traditional custom and habit, vi. 95;
social instinct a cause of, 96; the struggle for,
105 ; in nonsense, 191; the world ruled by nature
through, 265.
— allied to good conscience. 'vii. 36; and the man of the
antique world, 101.
— the most gratifying of all, ix. 305.
— on the nature of pleasure and pain, xv. 166-73.
Plutarch, on the conception of labour held by the nobly
born youth of Greece, ii. 5.
— the works and heroes of, v. 57; the inspiring effect of
reading, 116.
— now little read, vi. 258.
— his heroes, vii. 199.
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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PLUTARCH—POLITENESS
Plutarch, his gloomy picture of a superstitious man in
pagan times, ix. 79.
— the heroes of, and the Christian ideal, xiv. 180.
Poe, instanced as poet, viii. 76.
— alluded to, xii. 245.
Poet, the, the faculty of, i. 67.
— no longer a teacher, vii. 90 ; the mouthpiece of the
gods, 93.
— and the bird Phoenix, ix. 393.
— the charm exercised by the imperfections of x. 110;
and the liar, 200.
Poetry, and past and future generations, v. 90.
— thoughts in, vi. 180; the revolution in, brought about
by the restrictions of the French dramatists, 199
et seq.
— and the baroque style, vii. 75; the greatest paradox
in its history, 81.
— the origin of, x. 116-20; the warfare between prose
and, 125.
Poets, the younger philologist as poetaster, iii. 77-8.
— as lighteners of life, vi. 155.
— of emotion, vii. 58; to the poets of great towns, 59;
their real thoughts go about with a veil on, 249.
— Zarathustra's discourse entitled, xi. 151-5.
— and exploitation, xii. 99.
Poisons, on, vii. 33.
— isolated impulses operate as, x. 159.
Polis, the Greek, its constitution a Phoenician invention,
viii. 160; the Spartan state, a caricature of, 161;
Greek morality based on, not on religion, 165.
Politeness, the condition of, ix. 298.
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
Political economy, the Nihilistic trait in, xiv. 62.
Politics, the apparent weather makers of, vi. 325; new and
old conceptions of government, 325; the propa-
gandists—asking to be heard, 317-9; high politics
and their detriments, 353.
— the love of King versus love of State, vii. 314.
— on the stimulants and food of, ix. 185; the sharpest
spur towards high politics, 186.
— no longer the business of a gentleman, x. 72.
— the acquirement of single-willedness and the compul-
sion to great politics, xii. 146.
— Nihilistic traits of, xiv. 62; our more natural attitude
toward, in the nineteenth century, 99.
— the value of the opposition in, xvi. 28; my concept of
freedom, 94; a criticism of modernity in, 96; the
question of the working man, 98; freedom, 99;
a hint to Conservatives, 101.
Polybius, and active man in history, v. 17.
Polytheism, wherein lay the greatest utility of, x. 178; the
prototype of free and many-sided thinking, 180.
Poor, the, their only poverty, x. 197.
Poor in spirit, the, the physician of, ix. 321.
Popularity, the depreciatory effect of the best things and
conditions, x. 226-7.
Population, reason and the tree of mankind, vii. 289.
Port-Royal, essentials to the understanding of, xii. 106.
— the scholars of, xiv. 81.
Possession, when it becomes lord of the possessor, vii. 149.
— various aspects of the thirst for, xii. 115-7.
Postulates, the three, xiv. 320.
Poussin and the idyllic, vii. 346.
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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POVERTY—PRACTICAL
Poverty, nobility and the endurance of, ix. 203.
— on the motivation of, x. 55; the poor misunderstand
voluntary poverty, 193.
— Zarathustra surveys his winter guest, from the sunny
corner of his olive mount, xi. 209; I am jealous
of my poverty, 210.
Power, alluded to, vii. 36.
— in high politics, ix. 186; Danae and the god of gold,
209; wealth as a means of, 210; the subtlety of
the feeling of, 240; the demon of, 248; and
festive moods, 253; and our circumstances, 276;
the feeling of, 283; the first effect of happiness,
286; the Greek estimate of, 287; the victory of
the great man over, 379; the use made of, by the
great man, 380.
— the theory of the sense of, x. 49; and proud natures,
5i-
— Zarathustra—I call its condescension beauty, xi. 141;
the passion for, placed in the scales, 229; defined
and revalued, 230-1.
— the acquirement of, by lying, xiv. 120-5; the way that
leads to, 252.
— on man's desire for, xv. 185; our impotence to, 186;
concerning its Machiavellism, 220; the degrees
of,—the man of will—desire^—fate, 341; pleasure,
happiness, and progress appear with, 403.
— surplus power the proof of power, xvi. pref.
Powerful, the, the injustice of, considered, vi. 86.
Practical, the dangerous distinction between the practical
and the theoretical, xiv. 375-7.
Practical people, the dependence of, on the thinkers, ix. 351.
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
Political economy, the Nihilistic trait in, xiv. 62.
Politics, the apparent weather makers of, vi. 325; new and
old conceptions of government, 325; the propa-
gandists—askingto be heard, 317-9; high politics
and their detriments, 353.
— the love of King versus love of State, vii. 314.
— on the stimulants and food of, ix. 185; the sharpest
spur towards high politics, 186.
— no longer the business of a gentleman, x. 72.
— the acquirement of single-willedness and the compul-
sion to great politics, xii. 146.
— Nihilistic traits of, xiv. 62; our more natural attitude
toward, in the nineteenth century, 99.
— the value of the opposition in, xvi. 28; my concept of
freedom, 94; a criticism of modernity in, 96; the
question of the working man, 98; freedom, 99;
a hint to Conservatives, 101.
Polybius, and active man in history, v. 17.
Polytheism, wherein lay the greatest utility of, x. 178; the
prototype of free and many-sided thinking, 180.
Poor, the, their only poverty, x. 197.
Poor in spirit, the, the physician of, ix. 321.
Popularity, the depreciatory effect of the best things and
conditions, x. 226-7.
Population, reason and the tree of mankind, vii. 289.
Port-Royal, essentials to the understanding of, xii. 106.
— the scholars of, xiv. 81.
Possession, when it becomes lord of the possessor, vii. 149.
— various aspects of the thirst for, xii. 1 1 5-7.
Postulates, the three, xiv. 320.
Poussin and the idyllic, vii. 346.
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, it. VI, Human, ail-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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POVERTY—PRACTICAL
Poverty, nobility and the endurance of, ix. 203.
— on the motivation of, x. 55; the poor misunderstand
voluntary poverty, 193.
— Zarathustra surveys his winter guest, from the sunny
corner of his olive mount, xi. 209; I am jealous
of my poverty, 210.
Power, alluded to, vii. 36.
— in high politics, ix. 186; Danaeand the god of gold,
209; wealth as a means of, 210; the subtlety of
the feeling of, 240; the demon of, 248; and
festive moods, 253; and our circumstances, 276;
the feeling of, 283; the first effect of happiness,
286; the Greek estimate of, 287; the victory of
the great man over, 379; the use made of, by the
great man, 380.
— the theory of the sense of, x. 49; and proud natures,
Si-
— Zarathustra—/ call its condescension beauty, xi. 141;
the passion for, placed in the scales, 229; denned
and revalued, 230-1.
— the acquirement of, by lying, xiv. 120-5 , the way that
leads to, 252.
— on man's desire for, xv. 185; our impotence to, 186;
concerning its Machiavellism, 220; the degrees
of,—the man of will—desire^—fate, 341; pleasure,
happiness, and progress appear with, 403.
— surplus power the proof of power, xvi. pref.
Powerful, the, the injustice of, considered, vi. 86.
Practical, the dangerous distinction between the practical
and the theoretical, xiv. 375-7.
Practical people, the dependenceof, on the thinkers, ix. 351.
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
Praise, to one who is praised, vii. 161.
— effects of, ix. 358.
— disappointing, xii. 90; on rejoicing at, 93; its obtru-
siveness, 100; self-control in bestowing, 253.
— as a form of will to power, xv. 219.
Praise and blame, dependent on success or non-success,
ix. 149.
Prayer, the sense in, rests on two hypotheses denied by
Christianity, vii. 235.
— for whom its formula was devised, x. 171; the value
of, 172.
Precedence, the intellectual order of, vii. 167.
Precepts, on the proof of, ix. 30; alluded to, 104.
Precocity, on, vii. 134; early merit, 139.
Predestination, the conception of the idea of, vii. 241.
Predisposition and argument, ix. 35.
Pregnancy, the sacred state of—ideal selfishness, ix. 383.
Prehistoric epoch, the, the character of mankind estab-
lished in, ix. 26; the morality of, 27.
Presence, on the value of a noble, x. 77; lack of, in
industrial employers, 78.
Present, the, its value, vi. 217.
— the soul of, and the older art, vii. 67.
Preservation, the utility of, as the motive force behind
the development of the organs of knowledge,
xv. 12.
Press, the, wherein the power of, consists, vi. 323.
— its untrustworthiness, vii. 154.
— the power of, opposed, xv. 206.
Presumption, the years of, vi. 380.
— on not being deceived by, ix. 375.
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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PRIDE—PRIESTS
Pride, alluded to, vi. 174.
— perfect lovers and their different pride, ix. 300.
— the ancient savour of, unfamiliar to us, x. 55.
— Zarathustra more forbearing to the vain than to the
proud, xi.
of Season, ii. VI, Human, all-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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PITY
was meant by Homer in his time, 15 5; his period,
163.
Pity, on the wish to arouse, vi. 68; Plato and the weaken-
ing of the soul by, 68; the thirst for self-grati-
fication, 69; its aims, 103; estimation of, 103.
— how simulated vii. 39; on, 170; the expression of,
regarded as a sign of contempt, 223.
— an analysis of—on " no longer thinking of one's self,"
ix. 141; to what extent we must beware of, 144;
on arousing, 145; happiness in, 146; its demands
on the ego, 147; on becoming more tender, 148;
valued against stoicism, 149; and unfeeling
people, 259; the comedy of, 295.
— regarding, x. 51 ; the effects of, 265 ; the religions of
compassion and smug ease, 206.
— The Pitiful (Zarathustra's discourse), xi. 102-5; woe
unto all cooing ones who have not an elevation which
is above their pity, 105; Zarathustra, in poverty
and frozen with the ice of knowledge, mocks at
all pity, 213; in indulging in pity lay my greatest
danger, 226; the soothsayer reappears to Zara-
thustra, and would seduce him to his last sin,
293; heencounters the "ugliestman" whodeclaims
against, 322-6.
— its effect on a man of knowledge, xii. 100; the saint's
pity, 249; as regarded from the heights, 249.
— held in contempt by great minds, xiii. 8; the problem
of, 8-9.
— as more dangerous than any vice, xiv. 46; the view
of objective people, 96 ; Nietzsche's personal feel-
ing in the presence of, 204; on "his pity," 293.
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
Pity, an analysis of, xvi. 131; the praxis of Nihilism,
132; nothing more unhealthy, in the midst
of our unhealthy modernity, than Christian
pity. 133-
— why reproached, xvii. 18; Zarathustra quoted on, 18.
Plank, the small dividing, simile of, 54-5.
Plans, on making, vii 45.
Plastic artist, the, described and contrasted with the epic
poet and the lyrist, i. 46; the antithesis between,
and music, 121-8.
Plato, the typical Hellenic youth prostrate before the scene
of the dying Socrates, i. 106; alluded to, 101.
— the perfect state of, ii. 17; his conception of Hellenic
women, 21 ; the family and the perfect state, 22;
and Aristotle's attack on Horner, 56; the emula-
tion of, 59; as head of the many-sided philo-
sophers, 82; notes on, 168.
— his Phcedrus quoted, iii. 114.
— alluded to, iv. 151.
— and the teaching of children, v. 93; the basis of the
new education and the new state, 93; Niebuhr
and, 184; and the folly of fathers, 185; lost no
dignity whilst a court philosopher, 187; alluded
to, with Brutus, 200.
— his judgment that pity weakens the soul, vi. 68; his
view of tragedy and the tragic poets, 191 ; the
incarnate wish of, 240; a possible discovery of,
241; the old typical Socialist, 344; his ideal state,
345; quoted, 395; alluded to, 170.
— the period of his philosophy, vii. 136; his wide-drawn
dialogues, 183; referred to in an estimate of
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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PLATO
Beethoven, 268; on the effects of abolition of
property, 339; alluded to, 178, 302.
Plato, as all other philosophical architects, built in vain
against morality, ix. 3; and the association of
genius and sanity, 21; and the origin of action,
121; Thucydides and, 172; and actuality, 321;
on dialectic, 335 ; as the philosophical thinker, e. g.
the evil principle, 346 ; the psychological old age
of, 369; what the Greeks derived from, 374; and
the springs of happiness, 382; alluded to, 338,347.
— his aim—the founding of a new religion, x. 182 ; the
modesty which invented the word "philosopher,"
293; his ideomania, 305 ; his idealism, and its
origin, 337.
— his invention of " pure spirit" and " the good in itself,"
a dogmatist error, xii. 2; the effect of a struggle
against Platonism, 3; his aristocratic mode of
thought, and the imperatives of our naturalists,
21; his copy of Aristophanes found under the
pillow of his death-bed, 42; the place of Socra-
tism in the morality of, 11o; and the relative
authority of instinct and reason, 112.
— his contempt for pity, xiii. 8; not to be imagined as
a married man, 135; his aversion to art, 199;
alluded to, 177, 179, 215, 217.
— his arrogation to himself, as leader, of the right to lie,
xiv. 120; his imitation of the Aryan scheme of
community, 125; the taint of Jewish bigotry in,
165; reduced in Nietzsche's books to a carica-
ture, 299; how judged by Epicurus and others,
349; alluded to, 351, 359.
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
Plato, his estimate of the degree of reality, xv. 74; his in-
dictment of Athens under Pericles recalled, 203;
Tkeages quoted—an attitude of mind that must
be reinstated in our midst, 365; comforting
expedients of, 374; his estimate of man's power,
376.
— with Socrates, recognised as a decadent, xvi. 10; never
doubted his right to falsehood, 49; his proposi-
tion that all beauty lures to procreation, 78;
Nietzsche a sceptic regarding, 113; criticised,
114; truth, and the belief that a thing is true,
152; the " holy lie " not absent in, 214; alluded
to, 24.
— the use he made of Socrates, as cypher for himself,
the same as Nietzsche's use of Wagner and Scho-
penhauer in Thoughts out of Season, xvii. 81.
Pleasing, the desire of, vi. 379.
Pleasure, arises out of traditional custom and habit, vi. 95;
social instinct a cause of, 96; the struggle for,
105 ; in nonsense, 191; the world ruled by nature
through, 265.
— allied to good conscience. 'vii. 36; and the man of the
antique world, 101.
— the most gratifying of all, ix. 305.
— on the nature of pleasure and pain, xv. 166-73.
Plutarch, on the conception of labour held by the nobly
born youth of Greece, ii. 5.
— the works and heroes of, v. 57; the inspiring effect of
reading, 116.
— now little read, vi. 258.
— his heroes, vii. 199.
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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PLUTARCH—POLITENESS
Plutarch, his gloomy picture of a superstitious man in
pagan times, ix. 79.
— the heroes of, and the Christian ideal, xiv. 180.
Poe, instanced as poet, viii. 76.
— alluded to, xii. 245.
Poet, the, the faculty of, i. 67.
— no longer a teacher, vii. 90 ; the mouthpiece of the
gods, 93.
— and the bird Phoenix, ix. 393.
— the charm exercised by the imperfections of x. 110;
and the liar, 200.
Poetry, and past and future generations, v. 90.
— thoughts in, vi. 180; the revolution in, brought about
by the restrictions of the French dramatists, 199
et seq.
— and the baroque style, vii. 75; the greatest paradox
in its history, 81.
— the origin of, x. 116-20; the warfare between prose
and, 125.
Poets, the younger philologist as poetaster, iii. 77-8.
— as lighteners of life, vi. 155.
— of emotion, vii. 58; to the poets of great towns, 59;
their real thoughts go about with a veil on, 249.
— Zarathustra's discourse entitled, xi. 151-5.
— and exploitation, xii. 99.
Poisons, on, vii. 33.
— isolated impulses operate as, x. 159.
Polis, the Greek, its constitution a Phoenician invention,
viii. 160; the Spartan state, a caricature of, 161;
Greek morality based on, not on religion, 165.
Politeness, the condition of, ix. 298.
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
Political economy, the Nihilistic trait in, xiv. 62.
Politics, the apparent weather makers of, vi. 325; new and
old conceptions of government, 325; the propa-
gandists—asking to be heard, 317-9; high politics
and their detriments, 353.
— the love of King versus love of State, vii. 314.
— on the stimulants and food of, ix. 185; the sharpest
spur towards high politics, 186.
— no longer the business of a gentleman, x. 72.
— the acquirement of single-willedness and the compul-
sion to great politics, xii. 146.
— Nihilistic traits of, xiv. 62; our more natural attitude
toward, in the nineteenth century, 99.
— the value of the opposition in, xvi. 28; my concept of
freedom, 94; a criticism of modernity in, 96; the
question of the working man, 98; freedom, 99;
a hint to Conservatives, 101.
Polybius, and active man in history, v. 17.
Polytheism, wherein lay the greatest utility of, x. 178; the
prototype of free and many-sided thinking, 180.
Poor, the, their only poverty, x. 197.
Poor in spirit, the, the physician of, ix. 321.
Popularity, the depreciatory effect of the best things and
conditions, x. 226-7.
Population, reason and the tree of mankind, vii. 289.
Port-Royal, essentials to the understanding of, xii. 106.
— the scholars of, xiv. 81.
Possession, when it becomes lord of the possessor, vii. 149.
— various aspects of the thirst for, xii. 115-7.
Postulates, the three, xiv. 320.
Poussin and the idyllic, vii. 346.
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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POVERTY—PRACTICAL
Poverty, nobility and the endurance of, ix. 203.
— on the motivation of, x. 55; the poor misunderstand
voluntary poverty, 193.
— Zarathustra surveys his winter guest, from the sunny
corner of his olive mount, xi. 209; I am jealous
of my poverty, 210.
Power, alluded to, vii. 36.
— in high politics, ix. 186; Danae and the god of gold,
209; wealth as a means of, 210; the subtlety of
the feeling of, 240; the demon of, 248; and
festive moods, 253; and our circumstances, 276;
the feeling of, 283; the first effect of happiness,
286; the Greek estimate of, 287; the victory of
the great man over, 379; the use made of, by the
great man, 380.
— the theory of the sense of, x. 49; and proud natures,
5i-
— Zarathustra—I call its condescension beauty, xi. 141;
the passion for, placed in the scales, 229; defined
and revalued, 230-1.
— the acquirement of, by lying, xiv. 120-5; the way that
leads to, 252.
— on man's desire for, xv. 185; our impotence to, 186;
concerning its Machiavellism, 220; the degrees
of,—the man of will—desire^—fate, 341; pleasure,
happiness, and progress appear with, 403.
— surplus power the proof of power, xvi. pref.
Powerful, the, the injustice of, considered, vi. 86.
Practical, the dangerous distinction between the practical
and the theoretical, xiv. 375-7.
Practical people, the dependence of, on the thinkers, ix. 351.
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
Political economy, the Nihilistic trait in, xiv. 62.
Politics, the apparent weather makers of, vi. 325; new and
old conceptions of government, 325; the propa-
gandists—askingto be heard, 317-9; high politics
and their detriments, 353.
— the love of King versus love of State, vii. 314.
— on the stimulants and food of, ix. 185; the sharpest
spur towards high politics, 186.
— no longer the business of a gentleman, x. 72.
— the acquirement of single-willedness and the compul-
sion to great politics, xii. 146.
— Nihilistic traits of, xiv. 62; our more natural attitude
toward, in the nineteenth century, 99.
— the value of the opposition in, xvi. 28; my concept of
freedom, 94; a criticism of modernity in, 96; the
question of the working man, 98; freedom, 99;
a hint to Conservatives, 101.
Polybius, and active man in history, v. 17.
Polytheism, wherein lay the greatest utility of, x. 178; the
prototype of free and many-sided thinking, 180.
Poor, the, their only poverty, x. 197.
Poor in spirit, the, the physician of, ix. 321.
Popularity, the depreciatory effect of the best things and
conditions, x. 226-7.
Population, reason and the tree of mankind, vii. 289.
Port-Royal, essentials to the understanding of, xii. 106.
— the scholars of, xiv. 81.
Possession, when it becomes lord of the possessor, vii. 149.
— various aspects of the thirst for, xii. 1 1 5-7.
Postulates, the three, xiv. 320.
Poussin and the idyllic, vii. 346.
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, it. VI, Human, ail-too-Human, i. VII, Human, ail-too-
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POVERTY—PRACTICAL
Poverty, nobility and the endurance of, ix. 203.
— on the motivation of, x. 55; the poor misunderstand
voluntary poverty, 193.
— Zarathustra surveys his winter guest, from the sunny
corner of his olive mount, xi. 209; I am jealous
of my poverty, 210.
Power, alluded to, vii. 36.
— in high politics, ix. 186; Danaeand the god of gold,
209; wealth as a means of, 210; the subtlety of
the feeling of, 240; the demon of, 248; and
festive moods, 253; and our circumstances, 276;
the feeling of, 283; the first effect of happiness,
286; the Greek estimate of, 287; the victory of
the great man over, 379; the use made of, by the
great man, 380.
— the theory of the sense of, x. 49; and proud natures,
Si-
— Zarathustra—/ call its condescension beauty, xi. 141;
the passion for, placed in the scales, 229; denned
and revalued, 230-1.
— the acquirement of, by lying, xiv. 120-5 , the way that
leads to, 252.
— on man's desire for, xv. 185; our impotence to, 186;
concerning its Machiavellism, 220; the degrees
of,—the man of will—desire^—fate, 341; pleasure,
happiness, and progress appear with, 403.
— surplus power the proof of power, xvi. pref.
Powerful, the, the injustice of, considered, vi. 86.
Practical, the dangerous distinction between the practical
and the theoretical, xiv. 375-7.
Practical people, the dependenceof, on the thinkers, ix. 351.
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
Praise, to one who is praised, vii. 161.
— effects of, ix. 358.
— disappointing, xii. 90; on rejoicing at, 93; its obtru-
siveness, 100; self-control in bestowing, 253.
— as a form of will to power, xv. 219.
Praise and blame, dependent on success or non-success,
ix. 149.
Prayer, the sense in, rests on two hypotheses denied by
Christianity, vii. 235.
— for whom its formula was devised, x. 171; the value
of, 172.
Precedence, the intellectual order of, vii. 167.
Precepts, on the proof of, ix. 30; alluded to, 104.
Precocity, on, vii. 134; early merit, 139.
Predestination, the conception of the idea of, vii. 241.
Predisposition and argument, ix. 35.
Pregnancy, the sacred state of—ideal selfishness, ix. 383.
Prehistoric epoch, the, the character of mankind estab-
lished in, ix. 26; the morality of, 27.
Presence, on the value of a noble, x. 77; lack of, in
industrial employers, 78.
Present, the, its value, vi. 217.
— the soul of, and the older art, vii. 67.
Preservation, the utility of, as the motive force behind
the development of the organs of knowledge,
xv. 12.
Press, the, wherein the power of, consists, vi. 323.
— its untrustworthiness, vii. 154.
— the power of, opposed, xv. 206.
Presumption, the years of, vi. 380.
— on not being deceived by, ix. 375.
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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PRIDE—PRIESTS
Pride, alluded to, vi. 174.
— perfect lovers and their different pride, ix. 300.
— the ancient savour of, unfamiliar to us, x. 55.
— Zarathustra more forbearing to the vain than to the
proud, xi.
