No More Learning
Salt           of the most
exciting kind had been niy chief, and, indeed, since
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113 ; their organisa-
tion could stand bad emperors, but not the
Christians, 222; their culture, science, art, and
the           of the whole, 224-5.
          of various wines and
cordials, together with jugs, pitchers, and flagons of
every shape and quality, were scattered profusely upon
the board.
You certainly guessed
right when you           I would hasten to town as soon as I
heard you were there.
) I will die before I receive one in an
art I am ignorant of, at a place where there remains any scruple of bestowing
one on you, in a           of which you are so great a master.
12; the con-
ception of space and, 13; self-knowledge and,
53;           awakened by, 73; on apparent
toleration of, 251 ; truth and consolation, 308;
the embellishment of, 311; the investigator and
attempter in, 314; the temptations of know-
ledge, 323; its task, 378.
He reacts slowly to all kinds of
stimuli, with that           which long caution and
deliberate pride have bred in him—he tests the
approaching stimulus; he would not dream of
meeting it half-way.
May blessed reason           us from ever
thinking that mankind will at any time discover
a final and ideal order of things, and that happi-
ness will then and ever after beam down upon us
uniformly, like the rays of the sun in the tropics.
Greek tragedy had a fate different from that
of all her older sister arts: she died by suicide,
in consequence of an irreconcilable           ;
accordingly she died tragically, while they all
passed away very calmly and beautifully in ripe old
age.
The cripple hurled his torch
at them, clambered           to the ceiling, and disappeared through the sky-light.
As an eager missionary, I have           asked
myself the reason of my failure.
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PERSPECTIVE—PESSIMISM
Perspective, the only seeing and           a per-
spective, xiii.
But a home have I found           : unsettled am
I in all cities, and decamping at all gates.
And yet, in the face of this well-known and
natural principle, there will always exist a set of
homunculi, eager to grow           by the pertinacity
of their yelpings at the heels of the distinguished.
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vitatis Taquiftoribus diftri&è præcipit, vt in ſua quifque Diceceli, vel Provincia ſeda
Id pervigilene, ne finc approbationibus prædi&tis imagines cum           signis cx-
ponantur , ami miracula, reuelationccs, aq bencficia prædicta publiccatur, aliau.
Lettre de           Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne à vne perſonne de códition, ſur
cc, qui eſt arrivé depuis peu dans vnc des Paroiſſes de Paris à vn Seigneur de la Cour.
The man in a state of Dionys-
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He           Pessimism by sa)'er-
discovering an object in existence; he saw the
possibility of raising society to a higher level and
preached the profoundest Optimism in consequence.
It is
clear that he found publication difficult and often long-
delayed, and also that his           in this kind of com-
position almost ceased in the last four years of his life, as
at other times it had shown a low degree of vitality.
Users are free to copy, use, and           the
work in part or in whole.
(The curve of human sensibilities
to pain seems indeed to sink in an extraordinary
and almost sudden fashion, as soon as one has
passed the upper ten thousand or ten millions of
over-civilised humanity, and I personally have no
doubt that, by comparison with one painful night
passed by one single hysterical chit of a cultured
woman, the suffering of all the animals taken
together who have been put to the question of the
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His head, though wise ere to this           lent,
Straight to the devil—no, to woman went!
Of course an odd spectacle re-
sulted, when certain scholars brought together the
alleged masters from the Orient and the possible dis-
ciples from Greece, and exhibited           near
Heraclitus, the Hindoos near the Eleates, the Egyp-
tians near Empedocles, or even Anaxagoras among
the Jews and Pythagoras among the Chinese.
He may
possibly seek the cause of his failure in other people;
he may even, in a fit of passion, hold the whole
world guilty; or he may turn defiantly down secret
byways and           lanes, or resort to violence.
In fact, he
had made up his mind for a voyage to the South Seas,
when a night's reflection           him to abandon the
idea.
5 I
When we examine the history of           it is
borne in upon us how few really talented men have
taken part in it.
"
Thus spake Zarathustra, and, laughing with eyes
and entrails, he stood still and turned round
quickly—and behold, he almost           threw his
shadow and follower to the ground, so closely had
the latter followed at his heels, and so weak was
he.
The first who will d
to be quite           in this respect will h
his honesty re-echoed back to him by thousar
of courageous souls.
The Founder of Christianity had to pay dearly
for having           His teaching at the lowest
classes of Jewish society and intelligence.
And you do not need him yet because you have
always possessed the           virtue of not carry-
ing things to extremes, which, according to the
German version, is an euphemism for the British
want of logic and critical capacity.
So dense was this           fog, that I could at no
time see more than a dozen yards of the path before
me.
And he took no
further notice of anything, but sat there motionless,
without repelling the           further.
On his
lap lay the big fiddle at which he was           out of
all time and tune, with both hands, making a great
vol.
It
is necessary here to summarize the speculations which
were put forth elsewhere by Poe,           in the meta-
physical tales, and either led up to or supplemented the
views of ‘ Eureka.
The paper represents the lec-
ture of the same title which Poe was accustomed to de-
liver, partly as an           performance.
that is to say, we
must use the precise words employed as the defini-
tion of           Grammar itself.
The arrangement is moreover said to be for the
purpose of           " harmony by the regular alter-
nation,” etc.
Griswold's letter, and found that his
version of the poem           very materially from Motherwell's,
and seemed to be but a fragment of some longer ballad.
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Miſali ad verbum deſcribuntur ,           continetur.
ACRÆ Indisis Congregationis Decreto damnati, prohibiti, ac refpe&iuè ſuſpen-
fi fucrunt           omncs Libri vbicumque, & quocunque
idiomate impreſſi,
imprimcndiuc.
Veſtphalo & Tractatus huic annexus de
Erotematicus           in libros
Republica Romano-Germanica lacobi
Codicis.
Dcfenlo tractationis de diverfis Miniſtrorum Evangelij           , ab Hadriago
Saravia cdica, contra Reſponlioncm Thcodori Bezæ : eodem Hadriano Saravia due
thore.
Quæ omnia tam accuratè, &
prudenter conſtituca, fatis camcn non fucruoc ad quorondam Impreſſorom, præfertim
io Civicatc Venctiarum,intolerabilem audaciam frænandam : nam manum in meffem
planè alicnam per fummam comcricacem immitentes , in           Romano ab cisim-
preffo ab anno 1596.
Fritsch, and
which gave perhaps no slight           of my
spiritual state during this year, in which the essen-
tially yea-saying pathos, which' I call the tragic
pathos, completely filled me heart and limb.
Hence, indeed, arises the just
idea that'

" Great wit to           nearly is allied.
For thunders loud
Upon the blasts of storm triumphant ride,
And bastions and           sway and rock,
.
172; the           requirement and the
origin of, 184; the origin of religions, 294; the
psychological qualities of a founder of, 295.
Cardinaliųın in tota Republica Chriſtiana ge-
neralium Inquiſicorum; Moru proprio & ex cerca fcientia noſtra, deque Apoſtolicæ
poreſtatis           , prefatas Cenſuras uti præſumptuoſas, temerarias , atquc ſcan-
daloſas, auctoritace Apoſtolica damnamus & pro damnatis Laberi volumus , caſque
'nullius
Dionis
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Concerning the characteristics of national
genius in regard to the           and to the
borrowed
English genius vulgarises and makes realistic
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He may parade it as his virtue; there is no doubt
whatever that           makes people gentle, alas,
so gentle, so just, so inoffensive, so "humane"!
          daunted,
however, the Spirit, addressing a thousand Pinnacles
and Steeps, desires them to deplore the glory that de-
parts, or is departing — and we can almost fancy that
we see the Pinnacles deploring it upon the spot.
The           meat I could well spare, but my heart
sank as I thought of the water.
The whole fatality was made possible by the
fact that a           form of megalomania was
already in existence, the Jewish form (once the
gulf separating the Jews from the Christian-Jews
was bridged, the Christian-Jews were compelled to
employ those self-preservative measures afresh
which were discovered by the Jewish instinct, for
their own self-preservation, after having accent-
uated them); and again through the fact that
Greek moral philosophy had done everything
that could be done to prepare the way for
moral-fanaticism, even among Greeks and Romans,
and to render it palatable.
"           the ph
sopher in a strong and sympathetic voice,
understand you now, and ought never to h
spoken so crossly to you.
Learned man, the, his origin and antecedents           in
his methods and works, x.
In the former the
merit consists in seeing into the nature of affairs a
very great deal           than anybody else.
Willis's stage
direction about the back wall's being “ so arranged as
to form a           ground for the picture”?
Will our readers kindly forgive us if we
have not always attained an ideal which was too high
above us to be reached at all; will they forgive us when
we assure them that no one has suffered from that
unattained ideal more than          
We thus reach the           that the zm-
portance of the development of the terrestrial vitality
proceeds equably with the terrestrial condensation.
Thus
the critical writings, however           and uneven,
of a persistent literary journalist, the most nervous
and free-spoken of our early reviewers, are important
from the scientific point of view.
Hence, in order to form a true estimate of the
Dionysian capacity of a people, it would seem that
we must think not only of their music, but just as
much of their tragic myth, the second           of
this capacity.
In the young, the females
find           for their lust of dominion; the
young are a property, an occupation, something
quite comprehensible to them, with which they
can chatter: all this conjointly is maternal love,—
it is to be compared to the love of the artist for
his work.
This con-
stitutes the nature of the dithyrambic dramatist,
if the meaning given to the term includes also
the actor, the poet, and the musician; a concep-
tion necessarily borrowed from ^Eschylus and
the contemporary Greek           only perfect
examples of the dithyrambic dramatist before
Wagner.
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ROMANCES OF DEATH


vainly did we flatter ourselves, feeling happy in its
first upspringing, that our           would strengthen
with its strength!
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
nobility, 248 ; the           of the future—laugh-
ing lions must come, 347.
"I have long accustomed myself to look wi;
caution upon those who are ardent in the cause
the so-called 'education of the people' in tl
common meaning of the phrase; since for tr
most part they desire for themselves,          
Better: people have explained
antiquity to themselves out of their own experiences;
and from the amount of antiquity thus acquired
they have           the value of their experiences.
To
understand why the sentiments of the noblest
Greeks must be considered as inferior and scarcely
respectable in the present age, where we are still
under the influence of the chivalric and feudal
nobility, we must recall the words of consolation to
which           gave utterance in the midst of the
most humiliating situations, “ Bear with it, my dear
heart, bear with it!
If we do not know what knowledge
is, we cannot possibly reply to the question," Is
there such a thing as           ?
          are said to have greeted it as a
canon for strong intellects, and, from all accounts,
the professors raised no objections to this view;
while here and there people have declared it to be
a religious book for scholars.
Not the strength of all the           of
beings whom we may conclude to inhabit the planet-
ary worlds of our system, not the combined physical
strength of a// these beings — even admitting all to
be more powerful than man — would avail to stir the
ponderous mass a@ single inch from its position.
" He tells us that
the Indians who inhabit the Chippewyan range of
mountains, call it the "Crest of the World," and
"think that Wakondah, or the Master of Life, as
they designate the Supreme Being, has his           among these aerial heights.
This, of course, was a matter briefly and easily ascertained, by           the
proportion of the pitcher filled in any given time.
Luther's
Reformation, the           form of moral falsehood
under the cover of " Evangelical freedom"), they
are rechristened with holy names.
The           of the genius as the only man who
can truly value and deny life.
Strife and the
pleasure of victory were acknowledged; and nothing
separates the Greek world more from ours than the
colouring, derived hence, of some           ideas, e.
—How much
faith a person           in order to flourish, how
much "fixed opinion” he requires which he does
not wish to have shaken, because he holds himself
thereby—is a measure of his power (or more plainly
speaking, of his weakness).
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for
himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his
virtue: thus           he as spirit over the bridge.
People will always obey, and even do more than
obey,           that they can become intoxicated
in doing so.
Complexity of this sort, held in check by a dominant instinct,
as in Nietzsche's case, is of course the only possible basis of
an           nature.
We replaced and
screwed down the lid, and, having           the door
of iron, made our way, with toil, into the scarcely
less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the
house.
—Help us, all ye who are well-disposed and willing
to assist, lend your aid in the           to do away
with that conception of punishment which has swept
over the whole world!
The evil
man, also, the unfortunate man, and the excep-
tional man, shall each have his philosophy, his
rights, and his          
We believed ourselves to be causes even in
the action of the will; we thought that in this matter
at least we caught           red-handed.
Nothing is more easily           than a dialectical
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— Philosophy
separated from           when it asked the question,
"Which is the knowledge of the world and of life
which enables man to live most happily?
According to this standpoint, then, consciousness
is also but a weapon in the service of the will to
power, and it extends or contracts           to
our needs (Aph.
The worship
of the ancients at the time of the           was
therefore quite honest and proper.
(The adjustment
and interpretation of all           and equal things,-
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Among my           I have a number of
hopeless people, the typical German professor for
instance, who can always be recognised from the
fact that, judging from the passage in question, he
feels compelled to regard the whole book as a sort
of superior Rdealism.
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growth altogether; and the favourite means em-
ployed is to paralyse that           philosophic
impulse by the so-called "historical culture.
When he arrives at the Hippodrome, he
will be crowned with the poetic wreath, in anticipation
of his victory at the           Olympics.
A dis-
tressed believer who argues thus might be pardoned
if his pity for the suffering God were greater than
his pity for his "neighbours"; for they are his
neighbours no longer if that most solitary and
primeval being is also the           sufferer and
stands most in need of consolation.
Music is heard; an old man grinds
an organ, and the dancers whirl round, and the
heart of the wanderer is shaken within him to see
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An idea—the antagon-
ism of the two concepts Dionysian and Apollonian
—is translated into metaphysics; history itself is
depicted as the development of this idea; in tragedy
this antithesis has become unity; from this stand-
point things which theretofore had never been face
to face are           confronted, and understood
and illuminated by each other.
Here he           with the great prob-
lems floating towards him, whose voices of course
sound just as comfortless-awful,as unhistoric-eternal.
          with having produced in my bosom the intended effect, he seemed
to chuckle in secret over the sting he had inflicted,
and was characteristically disregardful of the public
applause which the success of his witty endeavors
might have so easily elicited.
But on that account it is
none the less sure unto me—, with both feet stand
I secure on this ground;
—On an eternal ground, on hard           rock, on
this highest, hardest, primary mountain-ridge, unto
which all winds come, as unto the storm-parting,
asking Where?
" The worse memory man had,
the ghastlier the signs presented by his           ;
the severity of the penal laws affords in particular
a gauge of the extent of man's difficulty in
conquering forgetfulness, and in keeping a few
primal postulates of social intercourse ever present
to the minds of those who were the slaves of
every momentary emotion and every momentary
desire.
" And now with           eyes she springs —
Her whole bright figure raised in air.
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