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CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION .

AUTHOR'S PREFACE ....

MISCELLANEOUS MAXIM.S AND OPINI

THE WANDERER AND HIS SHADOW.

INTRODUCT

THE publication of Humtends over the period 18divisions which constitute cellaneous Maxims and Opinand "The Wanderer and

Nietzsche being then in his Preface was added in 1886.

INTRODUCTION

should be remembered, howeverview coincides with Goethe's. Shakespeare's old is to be valtity rather than its quality (p

betrays a certain exclusivenesthat eighteenth-century France

PREFACE.

ONE should only speak where osilent, and only speak of what othe rest is all chatter, "literature,"

i i k l f

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contents of the first Thoughtvent to feelings hat had inspireda student, n the midst of Germtured Philistinism (I claim the

much used and misused phrtinism") What I saidagains

PREFACE.

we do not yet "examine," we selves so far away as Is essen"examines." "Examining neeantagonism, hat of an opposi

is said on page 46 of the above-nwith an insidious, melancholy a

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healthy, had tself discovered na temporary attack of the moromantics. After a convalescenwell be permitted to collect th

and publish them as a second voAil-too Human. Perhaps, f surv

PREFACE.

through t. As I went forwarand not long afterwards I wasthan ill-weary: weary from pointment about all that rem

modern men enthusiastic, at the thwork, hope, youth, love, flung

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was In the expectation of the corbold, subtle, malignant, southern,take an im mortal revenge upon t

PREFACE.

speech acquired only by the ming. I spoke without witnesseto the presence of witnesses, ssilence, I spoke of various things

cern me in a style that gave ththey did. Then, too, I learnt the

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him from his entire "past," hletters, datics,stupid mistakes andand teaches him to stretch out h

wards new nourishment, a new

so I, as physician and invalid into an utterly different and u

PREFACE.

Should my experience-the hand a convalescence, for it resulted -be only my personal experienc

my "Human, All-too-human"fain believe the reverse or I am b

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position to the romantic pessimithe unfortunate, the conquered:the tragic and to pessimism, wmuch of the severity as of the s

tellect (taste, emotion, consciencIn our hearts we do not fear, b

HUMAN, ALL-TO

To THE DISILLUSIONED N Phitherto believed in the highesnow find yourselves disillusionmediately get rid of life at price ?

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ADVANCE OF F.REETIIIXKIXG

between past and present freethink

be characterised han by that aphonition and expressionof which al

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speak of the will as Pascal hthe hands of its creator, Schothrough the philosophic craze already turned out to be a bane tothis will was made into a poeticwas held that all things in n

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what they are ? Or is it to be traof the ail-too brilliant light, tocular, easily dazzled, bat-like stomed, so that hate it they must

are seized with eyeache, earachwhen they begin to suspect thathe saying: " All philosophy hforfeit to history." In view of

we may pardon them for throwat him who talks like this, but

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a complicated mass of poor-sinnpharisee-arrogance.

OCCASIONAL HARMFULNESS O

The utility involved in the unchecke

THE GOOD SEDUCES O LIFeven all good books that are ware strong means of attraction to

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by poets and philosophers, s neveEven in the hands of the greatpictures and miniatures of one lif-have come into being, and inde

is possible. While in the procething that develops, cannot mir

INCURABLE.-The idealist ibe thrown out of his Heaven, hsuitable ideal out of Hell. Disilhe will embrace disillusionment

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26.FROM THE MOST INTIMAT

THE THINKER.-Nothing is hto conceive of an object impersee In it an object and not a p

ment towards each other. So wthe hought, whether t be not hera match, to draw a conclusion,that if a cons^:;nonce follows not only the two judgments unithe matchmakers that will gain

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humiliating to the self-esteemashamed of the fragility of the mconsiders himself more importanthe world, he would fain constr

less durable than the rest of the wing for truth he embraces the be

the picture of the world and existence. It often employs the ing^all illumination of the intit uses the very opposite mean

highest refinement of the intesatiety of the intellect's fruits. H

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by the highest efinement f tasteThe more taste diminishes, the mfor art change and revert to a vthe artist henceforth seeks o appeafare.

MAXIMS

his lips the goal of all scientifihardship, so that almost unconsciforward. Other natures stand stillby the beautiful illusion : the deseup, they become lost to science.

again, that have ofte:! experiencedconsolations become very dishear

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now appear to them of more valbeen said, they find them more bkind has always held that whamore value is more true, more generally called reality, the poetpower, proceedwith intention t

follows : "The ultimate and trueinner being of the entirety of thsity be closely connected with thasignificance of human actions." not " necessary" at all: such arather be rejected by that prin

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waves of development-well, thsea, his development itself, be thfree will: this totality can be acccan atone and expiate. S0 let Goman his redeemer. Let the worldexpiation, and self-murder. Let

35-AGAINST THE "TRIERS O

MORALITY.-One must know

worst that a man Is capable of practice before one can judge how

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whole proceeding Is not to be thouself-seeking, you marvellous beme that" hose who hide somethfrom themselves, or hide their themselves, are alike committingtreasury of knowledge. It is

41.ENJOYMENT ND NON-ENJ

-The only decisive argumendeterred men from drinking a pis deadly, but that it has an unpl

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stamp place upon themselves nenemies and superiors mproves heir prevents t from becoming oo acrid a

NOT TO BE Too DEJECTED.-Toi l b f i h

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he s not he cleverestf mereachedheverygoal owardsman is striving with all his clever

IN THEMIRRORFNATUf i l lld ib d h

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POWERWITHOU VICTORY. tion (that of the complete non-freewill) is yet the poorest in result

had the mightiest of opponents

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the consolation of a good conscience,revenge, ogether with the sympathy andthe just, nay of the whole of society, whof the evil-doer. Not a few are skilled self-deception that enables them to traninjustice of their own into an injustice

them from without, and to reserve for thth ti l ight t th l f

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the good man does not lie in atcontinuing to love their propoundharder task of defending his owcausing or Intending to cause bithis opponent. The sword of attbroad, the sword of defence usu

59-SIMULATED PITY.-We sim

wish to show ourselves superioranimosity, but generally in vain.noticed without a considerable en

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But to picture to oneself the jorejoice thereat Is the highest privianimals, and again, amongst themonly of the most select specimrare " human thing." Hence thsophers who denied fellowship In

Herostratuses who set fire to thewhich their images are honoured

A WORLD OF DIMINUTIVES.-

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THE WILL is ASHAMED OF

In all coolness we make reasonour passions. But we make the

take in this connection n beinwhen the design has to be carried

to deify every devilry that bringand to suspend for a time the balajudgment.

THE SADDEST ERROR.-Itff h di h

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73.REWARD AND PUNISHMENT

without an underlying notion revenge, even when he accusesAll complaint is accusation,all

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LETTING YOURSELFGo.-Theyourself go, the less others et you go

THE INNOCENT ROGUE.-There

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blame, probably only becausecapacity for judgment far more cexcessivepraise than through exc

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munity s of more value than" The permanent nterest is to temporary." The conclusionmanent nterest f the commuto be set above the temporary intvidual especially ismomentary

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good conscience? Science, whivery good thing, has come into such a conscience and quite frerather clandestinely, by roundabwith shrouded or masked face always with the feeling at leasto

summer atmosphere of the soul, own share of work and add melness.

DABBLERS IN CHRISTIANIT

-So that Isyour Christianity!-To

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systems ay In one word-Love. the lyric religion (whereas n itSemitism bestowed heroico-eplcthe world). In the word "love"meaning, so much that stimulate

memory and hope, that even the

and embodied in itself the Divine

ing to the command, " Be pein heaven is perfect," might aholy life. Thus error can makcome true.

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that maintain the belief that wioutlay the Church is more cheaplmanaged than under the stern cand wages. Yet what does onsemi-idleness) to be worth, whencome accustomed o it ? The se

religious nform us of their " kn" holy spirit," are not all upri"poor in spirit"? Can any relself-denial and draw the selfish

more inexorably than science?-things we may say in any ca

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speaking in plain language: "To

being knowledge would be indiquality but the quantity of fadistinguishes us from the pious, tare content with less. But shouout to us: " Be content and sh

a definite goal-not to depicting

reviving and summarising the pathe way to the future. Nor done as if the poet, like an imeconomist, had to anticipate a

national and social state of thing

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this would be the general enviground on which the delicate difbodied ideals would make the reever-growing human majesty. poetry of the future start from Gneedsgood pathfinders and abov

ward of the artist, hinders him froand more beautiful as a personaliting for glory be great enoughexhibit in his relations with ocorresponding to the growing beof his works In any case he

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feelings are expressed only in such men blush if others seem to diAfter all, among poets, to whdenies this shame, the more noblesyllabic in the language of emcertain constraint: whereas he rea

without both and keep to wateinner fire and inner sweetness of spontaneously changes again into

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OF THE SALT OF SPEECH.-

explained why the Greek writemand such an unparalleled wea

language made so sparing-a useh l i l G k

being naturally used in a far wcommonly done when one aprelations. We may give up fwho always wants to know exthinks about a matter, and wheta serious or a smiling face (fo

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who need not be ashamed of com

of the ancients or moderns. Fespecially for this humorous humour itself) the French are necessary to add that of all greatthe worst model in fact the inim

Its words whence arises a cho

good poet of the future will onlyand turn his eyes away from all tious, half-voiced, forgotten storipoets devoted their powers. Onby a long way not every rea

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Ing force together with a lavish and intentions. At the beginnreverse conditions sometimes app

SC A O S A S

and danger. Here the enjoyme

citement itself, in the victory memory, too, of unpleasant thinhave been overcome or make us ato the listener as subjects for singer describes the mishaps of

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That is why great artists and wrabundant use of the mediocre.

ROUGHNESS AND WEAKNE

same anxiety, on the other hand

the earliest ages gave even dead andmen that smile which they knewsign of life-careless of the actuby nature on life at its last gasp

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contempt for graciousness and

scious severity and morning chof passion, as if passion meant tsuch are the constituents of sentimin all old masters, who selected meansof expression not at rando

reflection. The reader, howeve

In this field and has never conspoint, sees omething embryonot without a reproachful hint toIng him not to serve up such rafood

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of Greek oratory-and, passing ro

observe their increasing precautioand the new laws and all these setions. We see hat the bow must so-called " loose " composition,

meansof expression smothered a

lucidly termed " endless melod

by going Into the sea, gradutread on the bottom, and finally sditionally to the fluid element In the previous, older music on

delicate or stately or impassio

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more and more closely with a

art of acting and pantomime, trainby no higher plastic models; anmeasure n itself and can impart kindred element, the all-too-wo

strength. They seek auxiliary hiding-places-such Is the casecalls In philosophy, the musiciadrama, and the thinker who calls I

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LE STYLE BAROQUE*-He writeris notborn or trained to dia

cutive arrangementof ideas will

masses, n fact of absolute quan

shown in Michael Angelo, the faof the Italian baroque stylists) :illumination and conflagration strongly moulded forms: ever-new

and aims strongly underscoredby

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ness knows so well how to conce

however, we let ourselves go, howmay be in our relations with me

How ART MAKES PARTISAN

and thinkers to feel reverence for their intellectual poverty, their absurd infat

passions (as it is quite possible to do); them only the lofty side of crime anthe touching and appealing element in wflabbiness and blind devotion (that toenough been done):-we have employedfor inspiring even an unphilosophical a

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A GLASSEYE.-The tendencmoral subjects, characters, mot" beautiful soul" of the work o

glass eye put on by the artist wh

"\riscr.Li.,AXKous MAXIMS AN

under the care of growing, then otraditional reverence. Many hours ma spider must have woven its web abA book is made better by good readby good opponents.

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comes diluted with the personal,

element, and the aim of the bookis the ambition of the intellect nindividual.

:\;isc::.LL..\xi.:ous MAXIMS

smoke of Ithaca and the embrace

more human spouse.

ADVANTAGE FOR OPPONEN

i t ll t i t thi

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I63. .

ALL BEGINNING is DANGER

choose whether to raise emotion another, and so finally to exalt it

or to tr a s rprise attack a

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wrestling that he affords. Suc

the accompaniment only of victdesire for victory.167.

SIBI SCRIBERE.-The sensibl

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that is loved and, one might say,

speaks of deeper needs and unsfor art among the people, as t is, ipostor. Be honest! Only in excenow an art-need in the highest i th d g d

What do they really desire from a

away hours and moments of dishalf-bad conscience, and, if pofaults of their lives and charac

world-destiny. Very different wrealised in their art the outflow a

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pathy and vddiu^ them Into on

characteristic of German sentimingly happy at a noble, magnanthe rest, submissive towards supeach other, and yet In their hea

ghl lf ti fi d h

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of this century ; when the awake

bition turned out advantageous toGerman poets ; when the real stanas to whether it could honestly anything, became nexorably suj d t f i di id l d t

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of the Christian middle ages at l

tone: their sound-architecture Ibut legitimate and equal sister of Handel's music was heard the n

the soul of Luther and his kin

h i l I l th t t d th

native sagas, his free idealisatio

gods and heroes,-who are reallof prey with occasional its of thnanimity, and boredom,-his re-figures, o which he gave n addiCh i ti thi t f t ti

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has the future. It is in the ver

that the fruits of Its great cultlose their taste and wither earlier

the plastic arts or those that groknowledge. Among all the prod

ti ti d th t

like a ruin, without the past an

tion.173-

LOOKING FORWARD AND Blike that which streams out of

h i C ld i G

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art moderates us and holds us in restrforms of intercourse, binds over the u

laws of decency, cleanliness, politenesspeech and silence. Hence art musttransfigure everything that is ugly-terrible, and disgusting elements whic

ff t ill l b k t f

fill up their time without music,

galleries, novels and poetry. could keep them from this induwould strive less eagerly for lvidious sight of the rich would

i f h bili f

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state of religious inspiration. A

he is only saying what he has lpopular wisdom and popular foso far as a poet is really voxpopuvox dei.

a collective virtue in their teac

discourses, in their method-thicurring vision, of which I firmlyraised a corner of the veil.of the

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that he is achieving a great dealart he lights the torch of the h

torch of desire. The philosonotion, when In the chilliness ohas In common with his age, he himself and his following by his ments.

war and victory of moral and

In the campaign against anxiety, ness, superstition, folly, should that every reader or listener maroused to strive after mental an

d d f h f li

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" So the decree of the Gods wilman to perish, that it might beeven to distant generations " ?

In other words, we suffer and pmay not lack material, and this

THE SADDEST DESTINY Ohas worked twenty years to temporaries, nd succeeds t last

h d h l

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and purity of thought and towareration and self-restraint.

ORIGINAL.-Original mindsby being he first to see a ne\vthe old, well-known thing, whiclooked by every one, as somethin

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profitably consort with visionarabandon himself in their torrid

insanity. He will thus have traof the road towards that cosmopotellect which can say without pr

How FAR PIETY OBSCURES.

the great man is credited with alland virtues of his century. Thu

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and calm of the spirit, so long as m

submitted to their sway.210.

LOOSEXERSOF TONGUES

THE GREEKS AS INTERPRspeak of the Greeks we unwittand yesterday; their universallya blank mirror, always reflecting

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lyric. Similarly it was the achieto liberate the Greeks from Asgloom, and to have attained the cl

THE PAGAN CHARACTERIIs nothing more astonishing to tGreek world than to discover th

time to time held festivals, as itpassions nd evil tendencies lik

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working epic material into dramaticreligious imagination for a long time eto believe in the identity of God w

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strong and true as it ever was. Itthe saying that, in order to undemust scrutinise the living remperiods; that we must travel, as ovelled, to other nations, especiall

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sion on the "better life,57 and ing, so secretly scornful, so prouChristianity, as the evening chimtiquity, with cracked, weary andIs balm in the ears even to one w

d il h d il G d h k f

devil or the devil God more thanks fhaving turned out as it has.

225.FAITH MAKES HOLY AND C

Christian who happened upon forbiddthought might well ask himself on s

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which she wills that succeedindance, on to a few days, one pland opinions of one brain. Thus German history lies in the days at Regensburg: the peaceful settastical and moral affairs, without

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any mental perversion in himselfa tricksy elf of desire had attractein this calling, and that he must greatest passion of his heart and bipainful conviction, tearing and gthat it was necessary o bid fare

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TRAVELLERS AND THEIR Gtravellers we may distinguish fivfirst and lowest grade is of those are seen-they become really travel

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from the mysterious paths of and conversions: they honour iquite godlike, and are afraid to the rest hardly listen when they and think the subjects under disc

and travels, Is a sign that one ileast would not like to appear propolite mask of pride.

GOOD FRIENDSHIP.-A goo

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ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANMISUNDERSTANDING. The the subtle brain is usually undersubtle as a silent superiority, and

REASON FOR DISLIKE.-Wemany an artist or writer, not bethe end that he has duped us, butnot find more subtle means neces

mains true to himself in opptimes when the youth must not uor would be harmed by understa

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MAN PROMISES,WOMAN FNature shows how far she has hith

task of fashioning humanity, bwhat she has had to overcome a

b f h f h l

but for the former they are placelatter to go through.

SYMPATHETIC WOMEX. women, which is talkative, tak

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k bl i lid

remarkable invalids, one must art of voluntary self-abasement.

DISGUST WITH TRUTH.-Wome

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Wh i i f hi ld

When, in spite of this, old menand write in the manner of the prfrom vanity, imagining that thethe charm of juvenility, enthusiahensiveness, hopefulness.

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his delights, his dawns of feelingsoarings of thought It offendsuch things haveexisted before.

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are constructed to last and dema

many hands, much that is less goa rule, although the organiser knand harder very well. He will will never be a lack of persons wto the rule, and he knows that the

WHEN IT is NECESSARY TO

ARY.-When the masses begin tois under a cloud, it is a good thinone's soul is not quite assured, to

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h I f li f li d d h

than In feelings of realised and heyour houses, dresses, carriagesof your palates and your tables, yand musical enthusiasm; lastly yoand fashioned but of base metalout the ring of gold, chosen by

To PROVIDE FOR ONE'S PAall only respect the old-establdeveloped, he who would survimust not only provide for post

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real wealth is produced from the that would be enough for an intelwealth then is the glittering ou

PARTY USAGE.-Every partysent the important elements thaoutside it as unimportant, and if it attacks those elements the more

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sacrifice his time, his thoughts feels himself compelled to an Int

party division But as has bee

party division, But, as has beeridiculously easy, o set up such a

on earth is at present strong enouan ideal-unless the belief in theknowledge, and of those that knoeven upon the most hostile mind

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CARRYINGCOALSTO NEWCments of the great States have twkeeping the people dependent,in fa coarser, he army, and a more re

and ambitious minds of all classe

and ambitious minds of all classeceptibly imbued with the idea which is recognised and hall-macan lead immediately to sociaeffect of this belief in governmentitles goessofar that even men w

lustre. Then nothing more Is wanted

gtunity for great wars. These are professional reasons (and so In all Idiplomats, aided by newspapers anchanges. For" the nation/' as a natineed never be supplied with a goodwar-it has one already.

far more than has hitherto been

far more than has hitherto beenthe differences of various grades only to a very small extent perthat in a strict sense). For this rebased on national character are soone who aims at the alteration

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are coquettish.-The other Suablans st

that Uhland was a poet and Goethe immbest about German novels now in voguone need not read them, for one knew althey contained.-The native of Berlin sgood-humoured than the South Germanall too fond of mocking, and so c

In their women German men p

In their women German men pbut self-opinionated housewivthemselves so perseveringly thatpersuaded he world, and at any raof their peculiarly German hoWhen the conversation turned on

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universal convictions and public

universal convictions and publicin accordance with the tailors' apparel makes the man." Of however, it must be said, " Themakes the apparel." Here opinpublic and become something

conception of how one could be ashampleased thereat, is the mark of sovereig

great and small.330.

INFLUENCE A PHANTOM, NOTThe man of mark gradually learns he has influence he is a phantom in and perhaps he falls into a state of subof soul, in which he asks himself wh

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To KNOW HOW TOmust advertise our mi

time heave audible sigof impatience. For if assured and happy weprivation, how enviousbecome at the sight!-Bu

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freshing and ugly to beholl d d k h

will and good works. Theyvirtue through the repulsivbad taste arrays her.

33DANGER OF RENUNCIATI

of basing our lives on too

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LOVINGTHEMASTEmaster love the master In d

ALL-TOO-BEAUTIFUL

Is too beautiful for thee,

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you some element of fraud -

pression, your bearing, yourand this deceitful something usual honesty, but constantly its value.

THE FREEZING-POINT OF THE

time the hour will come at last, thenvelop you in the golden cloud owhen the soul enjoys its own wearinin patient playing with patience,rese

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STAIRCASEHAPPINESS Justas the

STAIRCASEHAPPINESS.-Just as themen does not keep pace with opportuni

opportunity has already passed throughwhile wit still waits on the staircase others have a kind of staircase happinwalks too slowly to keep pace with Time. The best that it can enjoy of an of a whole spanof life falls to its shar

USES OF SICKLINESS.-He who Isonly has a far greater pleasure n health,of his so often getting well, but acquiresense of what is healthy or sickly in

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window-ay, and even try to prevent oso doing?

360.A SIGN OF RADICAL CHANGES.

dream of persons long forgotten or design that we have suffered radical chathat the soil on which we live has been cundermined. The dead rise again, and ourbecomes modernity.

undoubtedly, like children who prefert b d d t hi di ti d

to bread, destroy his digestion and acqfretful outlook on the world.

EXCESS AS A REMEDY.-We can m

talent once more acceptable to ourselv

ENNUI.-There is an ennui of

and cultured brains, to which theworld can offer has become stale. eat ever more and more recherchd fa

disgust at coarser diet, they are in 'dof hunger. For the very best exist

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any one dies that he is not much

the pompous funeral oration Is a p

Necessity first teaches the necesdividual, and the proper epitaph

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VANITY OF COMBATANTS

of victory n a combat, or wis all the more desirous that should be admired.

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his age not only lies upon him but Isspirit of the age offers resistance to

spirit of the age offers resistance to bear itself.

GREATNESS S A MASK. By gcomportment we embitter our foes ; by

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A DEFECTIVEEAR "W ill

A DEFECTIVE EAR.-"We still mob so long as we always 'shift the bothers; we are on the track of wisdoalways make ourselves alone responsibwise man finds no one to blame, neither others/'-Who said that ? Epictetus, ei

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389.AT THE DRINKING TABLE OF E

AT THE DRINKING-TABLE OF E

People whose innate moderation leaddrink but the half of every glass, withat everything in the world has its lement

must not be confounded with

stream that carries the boat alo

take Is made In nearly all biogra

NOT BUYING TOODEAR -

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templator a power of vision that magbellishes

bellishes.399.

BEING SATISFIED. - We show

attained maturity of understandinglonger go where rare flowers lurk undehedgesof knowledge,but are satisfied

vests us with that youthful pride th f h il d d f

can thenceforth easily demand ofrenunciations.

How DUTY ACQUIRES A GLchange a brazen duty into gold i

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that I might be able to conver

gsouls, but not even my own blo

There were four pairs who resposacrifice: Epicurus and MontSpinoza, Plato and Rousseau,hauer. With them I have to com

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The Shadow It is so long

The Shadow. It is so long speak that I should like to give of talking.

The Wanderer: I hear a voic

I almost fancied that I heard mi h i k h

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say something. Those are the re

which I hold conversation with

a long talk the wisest of men band a simpleton thrice.The Wanderer-. Your moderat

ing to those to whom you confe

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shadowy erms. You are ight.

to each other here and there, as

understanding, an obscure phrase wparty is meant to be a riddle. friends,you and I. So enoughfew hundred questions oppress

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OF THE TREE OF KNOWbut no truth; the semblance odom-these are the two fruits bytree of knowledge cannot be co

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truth Is to determine the value of truth 1

sane morality originates In the Idea that " trll h h l

really nothing- more than gymnastic appliawhich we have to exercise ourselves unt

thoroughly tired. It is a morality for thand gymnasts of the intellect.

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and old, to a disgraceful state o

servitude-I mean to that fun

fluous dependence upon physiciclergymen, whose dead-weight stthe whole of society.

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as everywhere the fault lies withf h h d

Of reason there is enough and t

wrongly directed and artificially little intimate things. Priests ansublime ambition of all idealists, din it even into the child's ears

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more favourable, for, by concedinth k hi di t

other, one makes him readier to

to heart. But as soon as he sets aopposite (that the Gods do conceus), into what thorny jungles of man fall, quite of his own accor

THE WANDERER AND

IN THE NIGHT.-So soon asour sensations concerning everaltered. There is the wind, probidden paths, whispering as if

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however, seek the freedom of thei t h th t

point where they are most secur

as if the silkworm sought freedomWhat is the reason ? Clearly ththinks himself most free where hiest; hence,as I have said, now

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tion.-Suppose, however, the revth t h i l li i g i

that he is always living in a comp

ence, but thinks himself free whabit, he no longer feels the weiFie only suffers from new chaireally means othing more han a

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merely thereby designate the thinthe back of our minds is that by

the back of our minds is that by

concept we can grasp the essenWe are still constantly led astactions, and are induced to think than they are, as separate, indiv

THE WANDERER AND to the cosmic riddle, the mightydespiser of nat re he creat re

despiser of nature, he creature

" the history of the world "! homo.

REPETITION,-It Is an excel

least to be quite marvellous and inuniqueness in the world! Oh w

uniqueness in the world! Oh, w

thing it Is ! Astronomers, who oa horizon outside our world, givthat the drop of life on the earth ance for the total character of th

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WHERE IXDIFFEKEXCE is

thing would be more perversthe truths that science will fin

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could establish nothing, and haveto accept these fantasiesas somet

to accept these fantasies as somet

true, with this abominable lie ascard: that faith Is worth morWhat we need now in regard to is not knowledge as against faith

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his life, and himself, and we, thebrighter fieldsof Nature and m

brighter fields of Nature and m

our blood some taint of this conmatters.

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Schopenhauer gives prominence oti l h t f th di l h

tional character of the display, h

text to suit the interpretation. Mment of the universality of the ptrue. He speaks of "every womespecially the younger often

THE WANDERER AND H

THE MODERN DIOGENES.-B

man, we must have found the lanteto be the Cynic's lantern ?

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days gradually increased. Suchdifferent from those with wh

different from those with wh

commonly confounded, from thodo not believe at all in these mostates of soul, and imagine their hidden somewhere behind the gla

THE WANDERER AND

merchant and pirate, who for a land the same person: where the

and the same person: where the

pears to them inadvisable, they eEven to-day mercantile moralitbut a refinement on piratical mthe cheapest market, at prime co

however, involves the least desirthe community for it thereby los

the community, for it thereby los

vide for its means of subsistenceregularity, and sees he product othreatened. Hence the communits power of attack and defence

THE WANDERER AND tion and fines as against theft. reminded that his action has exclu

community and from Its morathe community treats him as anbrother, an outsider. For this ris not merely retaliation, but ha

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treat the offender as fit to be punisany onebe intentionally more un

any one be intentionally more un

ought to be ? Whence comes thscales are loaded with good and bthe origin is not error or blindneor external constraint? (It sho

THE WANDERER AND tentional,and only intentional ompunishable Theoffenderas

punishable. The offender as worse to the better motives, but wpurpose: he has Indeed ailed tobut not exactly with the object The very assumption made in th

THE WANDERER AND become decidedly weaker than thtion enters and law ceases

tion enters and law ceases,

same as that attained by law. wisdom of the superior which ainferior and not uselessly to squThus the position of the inferio

2O8 HUMAN, ALL-TOOcomes just as illegitimate childreThey have done the samething

They have done the same thing

without any bad consequencesdiscovery, and with discoveryhabit should make the dee

criminal is punished appear mor

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logic. The teachers of free wilinevitable conclusion from their

will" and boldly decree: " No a

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(like Nibbe, the too favouredsocial class system this envy dem

soc a c ass syste t s e vy de

shall have merits above his statiperity shall be on a level withespecially that his self-consciougrow the limits of his rank. O

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a stop. Sometimes he forcein order to attain its object, w

enough o shatter he machintoo strong o be disorganisedwill all the same strike the most v

asa sort of last attempt. We

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first act of revenge only serves thpreservation. It may be that t

preservation. It may be that t

sary we have lost property, rank-these losses are not recoveredreadjustment only concerns ais added to all the other losses

THE WANDERER AND revenge of society upon one whit. Thus by legal punishment

well as that of society is restorepunishment s revenge. Punishcontains the first-mentioned elin as far as by its means society

THE WANDERER AND HIS

whole world-structure. As if the always and everywhere ormidablesort of terror must always exist in

sort of terror must always exist in

Through a carelessness n small mata deficiency in observation of self aing generation, you have yourselvpassions o develop nto such unruly

218 HUMAN, ALL-TOOveil over the origin, they thoua sacred, unalterable foundation

generation would be compelledtion was now a constraint, evevolved the profit originally derivagreement -Here the weak havea

THE WANDERER AND

motive morally higher than utilias if morals had not sprung fro

in fact morals are originally which had great difficulty in interests of the unit and securintion.

For by abandoning themselves wtheir compassionate, gentle, conc

ising instincts, they make all careless, more covetous, and mThe children of these highly easily and (sad to relate) at best

THE WANDERER AND HI

questioning appears o him queshowever, the consequence would

hi ld l

er's machinery would no longer he could really feel himself unencuin the search for knowledge? Ithen, that for fuel the same elemen

b i i d b f

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a " Thou shalt"-all rather rougsteps, because on the finer,

cannot yet set their feet. Then of inclination, of taste, finally beyond all the illusory motivehas convinceditself that humani

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of the most fruitful soil, like thbecome lord over bogs and fore

seed of spiritual good works ovanquished passions is the next task. The.conquest itself is a mif it be not so regarded, all k

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with animals. Where advantagenot come Into play, we have a f

irresponsibility. For exampleInsects or let them live, and as a rabout it We are so clumsy thatacts towards flowers and small a

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and deficient in the finer form ofa foundation of moral judgmen

but the greatest contribution is tion. Many animals incite meand gestures to transfer themin imagination, and some religio

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favourable winds swell our sailsdom of seamen. Not to follow

nate, firmness of character beingby stupidity.

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resign oneself or to live as one plmatter of fact, every man is himself aWhen he thinks that he is struggling

in this way, fate is accomplishing its that struggle. The combat is a fantasyresignation in fate-all these fantasiesin fate.-The fear felt by most people oh d i h f d f h ill i

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out to him, "You are not a hGod."

70.THE MOST UNSKILFUL TE

all his real virtues are implanted

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DIVINE MISSIONARIES. -

himself to be a divine missionarywhether we should not here detect

Attic irony and fondness for jed

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hearers and readers! In short, make the latter still more irrelig

THE DANGER IN PERSONA

that the dentist at least attains hisness or the patient-although in sthat he becomes ridiculous; whe

that he becomes ridiculous; whewho follows that advice and thhis sensuality, is wrong, for his sIn an uncanny, vampire form, an

THE WANDERER AND

unbelief!" " What is more/3 cr" I don't believe him: he has onbonnet I'll wager that in a w

bonnet. I ll wager that in a wfind ourselves in the same placeand the warder will know nothwarder ever knew anything, he k

THE WANDERER AND

discover matter more worthy of be able to communicate it properable Into the tongues of neighb

able Into the tongues of neighbmake oneself comprehensible tlearn our language; to work making all that Is good comm

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89.PAYING ATTENTION TO

movement of the sentences sh

author be tired. Individual exptheless be still strong and good, i t d li d f th i

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clever, bias/ Frenchmen say, "

prose," we ought really not to criticism is more polite than wed

criticism is more polite than we dfor reasons, we come at last to menon that the German knowprose and has no conception o

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fall at every place where they sthurt themselves when they fall!

POETS' THOUGHTS.-Real thl b h l l k

only to consider the best of oartists in this light None of have had Goethe as their teacher.

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worked them up for reading pspeeches ought to be " demosthsameobject for at present they co

same object, for at present they coRoman Forum than we can endu

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each attains a greater wealth of bnarrow hedges of these sequesclosures.

LITERATURE AND MORALITPLANATORY We can show fro

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of lines underneath all their comsuch a mathematical substratumcomesartistically pleasing. Per

comes artistically pleasing. Perbe applied symbolically to hum

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his mind was like a hunter-on everywhere for transitions, deprethe outward and visible signs o

the outward and visible signs oThe unrest of spring drove him was himself not the spring.-At had some inkling of this, and

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too often ill, and then at times enand hypocrisy paid her visit ashad an air of being scarred and

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the Greek poets and musicians, owith each of his works (since hecompete publicly with one or

compete publicly with one or condition is that he must be unand this is only possible by meWhat the artist devisesbeyond co

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not, indeed ? He does not live tto show that the storeroom ofpartly empty,partly filled with

partly empty, partly filled withindeed? This condition does the artist-child badly. In pashows hat for the very easiest

itself but once," near to the saints, aft

itself but once, near to the saints, aft

tary death. Even the great scholman" with "the dark impulse," heaven in the nick of time, by a

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and decay do not enter into threlations with his countrymen. lives but for the few; for the m

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them ? A better taste, a riper knreverence for the real and the truethe very virtues which these five

yothers of lesser repute) first re-plaand which now, like a mighty fograves not only the shadow of a

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of an immature or of a corruptpoverty but a masterly reedomthat modest wealth distinguishes

gin oratory. They wish to have lhas-for the people is richest inthey wish to have that little bett

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who does not at once concede t

convinced of the point

CLASSTC.M,OOKS.-The wclassical book is that it is written

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MAIN REASON FOR CORRU

The desire to display more sereally feels for a thing corruptsand in all art. All great art

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less we hover above t like a birHere for once the so-called bird'sartistic caprice, but the sole po

THE WANDERER AND

AUTHORS3 OPIOUSNESS.-g d th q i i

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(If not known otherwise) rom ththought to give permanence to hthem, the other by boiling them

, y git seems, made a miscalculation.

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SEBASTIAN BACH.-In so fa

Bach's music as perfect and expseurs of counterpoint and all the vstyle (and accordingly must dispen

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just as far as the limit which mtellect, and only wrote music tha

BEETHOVEN AND MOZART.-B

f lik d l

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awake, longing for sleep. This case with cheerful music, whichterness and pain, satiety and h

gether, and forces us to sip aga sweetened draught of poison. noisy merrimentthen seemso

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ness. Only on the Christian amen are great sinners and do nothwe justify the application of thi

to all music. So far, music wouof all the actions and impulses continually have to express by

THE WANDERER AND

FREEDOM IN FETTERS-A P

-Chopin, the last of the modgazed at and worshipped beChopin, he Pole, he inimitabl

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first three decades of this centurthis stripling was completely tand melody by Robert Schum

youth, so long as he felt himseof his powers. There are indehis music reminds one of the ete

THE WANDERER AND

OF THE PRINCIPLE OF MUSIC

Do the modern musical perform

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ability or the right to argue. Apromoters are princes, whose abe not much, criticism nor even

their neighbourhood. Next counder some pressure or other (polare forced to become habituated

THE WANDERER AND

opposite-I mean, by those simpairs which, in spite of all their mand childishness of harmony, see

to us like the very soul of music. as you please, you Pharisees oand it is my present task to pr

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perienced connoisseurs n art, thto ignore.-Moreover, almost all effect only when we hear it spe

our own past. Accordingly, it sthat all the old music is continuand that all the latest is of little v

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relegated to the idle and consctheir very nature, are not exactart, and consider Its claims ar

therefore, be all over with art, sithe power to breathe. But perattempts, by a sort of coarsening

2/8 HUMAN, ALL-TOO

thus to vanishing altogether. Bfess that an era that once more I

complete high-days and holidays

no use for our great art.

THE WANDERER AND

their own soil. This limitationwhat elements of a science " are

words, what they can carry hom

and atmosphere: they think thatcollecting their scattered " propprevented from building at the

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all his might-he had made great and he knew it. I threw him a -in reality it hurt me cruelly.

our recognition of many of the tato them when they hurt us.

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because t does not lead the greIs, the mediocre-to think that thYet the superior mind assumes

their sake-so as not to irritatefrom a feeling of pity and kindn

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already anticipated by their imthere are moments as In the lmaritime discoverers-knowledge

power raise each other higher anshore first dawns upon the eye iBut now the stern man recogni

THE WANDERER AND

summons to greatness in life and fnot pass beyond any longer-the gone by.

i So.TEACHERS IN THE AGE OF

lf d ti d t l d

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much as they appear to him to they work with an eye to this vato their own self-satisfaction. W

In Its most weakened forms, In iIts small doses, because we livemasculated state of society. Or

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heritance from the animals. Ma

of age until he has restored to thof the cradle.-Herein lies buried

ideas that men can have, the ideaall progresses.-Let us go forwamillenniums, my friends ! There

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poets we often notice that, howevlife, they are not of good birth, aoppressed and ill-nourished ance

their blood and brain much that subject and even the conscious work. The culture of the Greeks

THE WANDERER AND

jailer Is lord, and indicates thehis distinguished prisoner shall dIs the suicide of nature-In othe

lation of the most rational beinIrrational element that is attacthrough religious illumination

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I87.WAR AS A REMEDY.-For na

ing weak and contemptible w

g pas a remedy, if indeed they realiving. National consumptionadmits of a brutal cure The

THE WANDERER AND

what kinds of degeneration and by each region of the earth, andingredients of health the earth

gradually, nations, families, and itransplanted long and permanentlto become mastersof their inh

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nay whole centuries, ake pains tonew means of bor.cP.ting he greand thus finally the great com

the world. Whatever injury thor periods may suffer in this tehave each become wise through

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They met In his presence, heinto his hand the hands that hadtools and only too often the cau

HUMAN, ALL-TOO-

had arisen, but men only had ewhen it was depicted on the walthat was legible to the whole c

qualities are not recognised as with names, held in esteem, andworthy of acquisition until the

THE WANDERER AND

DAYS OF DARKNESS.-" Dathe name given in Norway to th

sun remains below the horizon thThe temperature then falls slowlyA fine simile for all thinkers f

NATURE AND SCIENCE. Ascience the worse and less ferti

cultivated-because the means t

early stages has at command are f

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Intellectual development the daoffspring Is very great. Such mmankind - they ought no long

needle-points. 198.

NATURANONFACITSALTU

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significant in an aesthetic senseview of Mont Blanc from Gen

significant thing without the au

science: the nearer mountains areand fuller of expression, but " nadds that absurd depreciatory

THE WANDERER AND

mountain, sea, forest, and desertonly for a brief space. Afterwapatient "Have they all noth

Do we not exist so far as theyThere arises a feeling that a lemitted against humanity.

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ashamed of their wealth. If w

any one that he is very rich, we atsentiment to that experienced at

pulsively swollen nvalid, one suffor dropsy. We must with an effhumanity, in order to go about w

THE WANDERER AND

character is the yoke fastened upnot on that account deceive us-visibly ashamed of the yoke you

soul you are weary and unwillingshame is no disgrace."

THE LOT OF MORALITY.-Sage is being relaxed, morality

ditional, instinctive mode of acwith moral sentiments) is surely

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mistrust the truth, when It plips.

The Elder\ You propose totruth?

Pyrrho: Yes; distrust as it earth, distrust of anything and

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(Pyrrho turns round and laugThe Elder : Ah, friend ! Sil

is that now your whole philosop

Pyrrho: There might be a wo214.

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their style, particularly to its oband occasionally dry-as-dust elemare defects from which these tw

thinkers suffer least and yet far as thinker was fonder than he

of embracing the cloud, and Sch

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and moreover regards anything urious in material and cut as ouhis work: lastly, that by his

ates the more learned and intellthose to which he stands or wo

nearest as a European - where

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Is unmistakably and inimitably athe inventive genius of the yohas run riot for some time in su

lations of youth (or rather, a

genius of older, courtly civilisexisting peoples-in fact, of t

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the still unripened men and womrather the repudiation of nationdividual vanity. Accordingly,

because Involving a saving of tIf certain cities and districts ofInvent for all the rest in the

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"Gr.RMAX VIRTUE."-Therefrom the end of the eighteenth

of moral awakening flowed throuonly Virtue found again the pow

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original and hereditary of her posgreat men who transfused Into thFrench impulse towards greatness

of the moral will were more honeful. Whence comes the moralisrn

continually reminding us: from

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collected and expressed so well. vetius is the best-abused of algood men in Germany.

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they are in all things rather too hto settle like the men of other da

REACTION AGAINST THE

MACHINERY Th hi it

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abrupt monster, enlightenment itsand abrupt. Its danger has therefogreater than its useful quality of

l h h d d

lumination, which it introducedvolutionary movement. Whoevalso know from what confusion

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small to save are sure to prosperinstance, the German Reformatio

224.GLADSOME SOULS.-When

of drink drunkenness and an

THE WANDERER AND

THE " ETERNAL EPICURlived in all periods, and lives h h ll d d ill ll h

those who called and still call themand without repute among philo

3H HUMAN, ALL-TOO

collect forces which will somneeded by culture, the more thpresent, and, as such, fulfils its capital and try to make it secu

of real danger, our method is to

THE WANDERER AND

monarchy was abolished, to thfpobe loved more than a person, andthe lover so often as a beloved the more men know themselves

less considerate they usually becono longer worthy of love, and a

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we must nevertheless close the innforming an action (be this even oor eating or drinking). Even i

average people we must knowown mental vision in order toaverage thinking. This shuttin

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WHY BEGGARS STILL LIVE

given only out of compassion

b ld l i h d

beggars would long since have d

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good case, otherwise we readily selves the culprits, and experienemotion.

243-IMPOSSIBLE NTERCOURS

h h d f

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gusted many writers. They halectuality of mankind too highlyto be silent as soon as they becammistake.

BUSINESSSERIOUSNESS T

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Is why so many do not assert heibecause heir rights are a kind are too lazy or too cowardly to edulgence and patience are the n

i t th t l k th f lt

virtues that cloak these faults.

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THE MISTAKE OF THOSE W

E hi k h i

Every one hinks he s paying a mpliment to a thinker when he hit uponexactly the samedeaa

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THE PATH TO EQUALITY.mountain-climbing make a blactwo rather similar creatures

two rather similar creatures. shortest'path to equality and frate

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fabled. The Greeks upposedness dwells anywhere on our eardwell as far as possible from us,at the edge of the world. Old peth ht if i t ll

thought-if man is at all capahe must be happy as far as poss

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Ah, a vast amount of tedious wbefore you find your own colouyour own canvas!-Even thenfrom being a master in the art

you are the boss in your own wo

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we really suffer on this accounhas to continue the work we havevery flaw and failing in its s

injure our work that will fallh h i f

injure our work, that will fall the sorrow at the imperfect gumortality : or, if we only feel ou

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hopeless, unfruitful periods of of man. The twenties, hot, oimpetuous, exhausting years, whday in the evening, when it is osweat from our foreheads year

sweat from our foreheads-yearseems o us cruel but necessary-th

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tion that Intellect In women frifar that they even gladly deny tmost intellectual sense and pureputation of short-sightedness.

ill h b k

will thereby make men more consoft attractive twilight werespre

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temperament than the female folthat male children have a greafemale, clearly because they "skins" more easily. Their wilableness soonmake all the bad s

ableness soon make all the bad s

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in revolt against the Middle Agonly, is the age of Cyclopean bsecurity in the foundations, thabuild on them without dangeimpossibility of the orchards of

impossibility of the orchards ofmore destroyed overnight by wil

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faction seems universal nowadaoccasion where the vote is exerthirds, nay perhaps not even thvoters, go to the polls, that very fathe whole suffrage system On

the whole suffrage system.-On we must pronounce a much stern

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feels at home with novelties hthe night All political work, evmen, Is an improvisation that tru

278.PREMISSES OF THE AGE OF

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meditative and declare that this our modern military system, as itof our altogether different culliving anachronism, the picture, community resting on a hazardo

community resting on a hazardohumous work of the past, which

334 HUMAN, ALL-TOO-

is cheap and to what an extent. and for a layman impossible, to bility.-Hence that which produeye and costs little at present gaithis being naturally machine m

-this being naturally machine-mmachinery-that is to say, the ca

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nullification, kings hold by their teethnity as war-lords. To this end they nIn other words exceptional circumstanthat slow, lawful pressure of the demois relaxed.

THE TEACHER A NECESSARY E

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pay as highly as we can, often means. On the other hand, we as low a price as possible; here is every one struggles and makes othfoot's breadth of land In the w

foot s breadth of land. In the wthere is sonic-thing hat cannot be

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a harmless and unwary victim. states face each other to-day. evil Intentions on their neighbintentions on their own. This his an inhuman notion as bad

is an inhuman notion, as bad war. Nay, at bottom it is a cha

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working in vain when they wdiminution of the military burdenwhen the distress of these burdesort of God who alone can help hThe tree of military glory can o

The tree of military glory can oone swoop, with one stroke of

THE WANDERER AND H

really equal plots of land, and if envy of his neighbour would pbelieving in their equality. Anthis equality, unhealthy and poisroots endure? In a few genera

roots, endure? In a few generaance, here one plot would come to

340 HUMAN, ALL-TOO-

characteristics of the human soul.all antiquity, in good and evil as-that is to say, n a radical differand bad men and good and bad quthat property may henceforth

that property may henceforth fidence and become more mora

THE WANDERER AND

is not at liberty to say whether hor to decide how he shall workpoints of usefulness, iderand the valuation of labour. What justice doesvery well in this

justice does very well in this refined utility, which does not

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body. In Germany such a studyand historical research, or, as I telescope,

How FAR MACHINERY HU

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DESTINY AND THE STOMAless of bread and butter In the jocasionally the decisivefactor in r

casionally the decisive factor in rthus in the good and bad luck

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historic memories of previousbecause the pious affection for thbe gradually uprooted under hwith all its craze for novelty andcorrections f frontiers hat will

corrections f frontiers hat will be socarried out as to servethe int

THE WANDERER AND

parties.-I speak of democracycome. What at present goes by tinguished from older forms of gthe fact that it drives with new

and the wheels are the same as of

and the wheels are the same as ofdanger really become less with th

346 HUMAN, ALL-TOO

most precious of human commworth the price!"

ET IN ARCADIA EGO.- I

ET IN ARCADIA EGO. I waves of hills, to a milky-green

THE WANDERER AND

world in themselves, and amonggreatest men, the inventor of a heof philosophy-Epicurus.

296.COUNTING AND MEASURIN

HUMAN, ALL-TOO

EXHAUSTION OF THE INTE

sional coldness and indifferenc

which is imputed to us as hardh i f l h

which is imputed to us as hardcharacter, is often only an exhll I hi h

THE WANDERER AND

Instance (to name trifling poingive a better proof of this sorthan great examples), if as a bofruit from another's orchard, an

walks on unmown fields. It is

walks on unmown fields. It isthen still only a " law-abiding pe

WHEN IT is NECESSARY Ofor a time at least, part from th

to know and measure. Only whcity do you see how high its to

to know and measure. Only whcity do you see how high its tohouses

THE WANDERER AND

To BEWARE OF ONE'S PORTR

great painter, who in a portrait ha

on canvasthe fullest expression ani bl ill l l

on canvas the fullest expression anman is capable, will almost alw

352 HUMAN, ALL-TOO-

tion of illusions is still more upon as an amusement, as t unpeople.

THE MONOTONE OF THE "

O O O O

times have a look of wondering

THE WANDERER AND

how to surprise himself, torch ithe mind it is as with the bodcustomed to look at himself inhis ugliness, and only recognisesof the portrait-painter. Yet he

of the portrait painter. Yet heto the picture and forgets his

354 HUMAN, ALL-TOO-

all is done equally well and perepair the damaged places.

BELIEF IN ONESELF.-In ou

BELIEF IN ONESELF. In ou

e er one ho belie es in himse

THE \YANDERER AND

of others cannot understand talways see before me the frighthose who could give help anhelp. So I am troubled by the mmy intellect to myself and of be

y te ect to yse a d o beit alone so far as it can give any

356 HUMAN, ALL-TOO

but say at once to yourself, " Ting a second piece of folly to have worked evil, you must bdoing good. If you are punishesubmit to the punishment with

pthis very submissionyou are som

THE WANDERER AND

Nature, qiLand meme, Consesomething quite different from wing her name pronounced.

PROFUNDITYAND ENNUI

358 HUMAN, ALL-TOO

heads, so the lightest and freest spfuture weather by their coursevalley and the market-place opinno significance for the future, bu

THE WANDERER AND

MARKET VALUE.-If we wfor what we are, we must be som

market value. As, however, onlmon use have a market value

, ,mon use have a market value, ith f h d

360 HUMAN, ALL-TOO

that feeling just here, in this October air, in this happy elfinfrom morn till eve, n this clearand mildest of temperatures, in cheerful landscape of hill, lake,

p , ,plateau, which has encampedfea

THE WANDERER AND

DISTURBANCES OF THE THIN

terrupts the thinker in his thoug

as people say) must be regarded bd l h i b

p p y) ga new model who comes in by

362 HUMAN, ALL-TOO

ceptions. As a matter of fact,looked upon as superfluous, asnot be missed if it did not exist.

THE WANDERER AND

comport himself like an animahas become more gentle, more joyous, more meditative than anyhe. still suffers from having carriefrom having been so long withou

g gmovement-these chains, howev

364 HUMAN, ALL-TOO

The Shadow: Of all that yonothing pleased me more than owant again to be good neighbfamiliar things." This will be us poor shadows too. For do bu

phave hitherto been only too fond

THE WANDERER AND

stead of slave ? Or would remain would lead a life of humiliation you despised your master? Lewith freedom such as you have enyou and I! For the sight of a b

y gembitter my greatest joys; all th

366 HUMAN, ALL-TOO

The Shadow: Walk under thosaround you towards the mounsinking.

The Wanderer-. Where are you?

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