Works of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Including The Birth of Tragedy, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, The Untimely Meditations, Human, All Too Human and more
Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Pages: 776
ISBN: 2:00055959
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Table of Contents: Homer and Classical Philology (1869) Translated by J. M. KennedyBirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872) Translated by Ian C. Johnston On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)We Philologists (1874) Translated By J. M. KennedyHuman All-Too-Human, A Book For Free Spirits (1878-79) Translated by Helen Zimmern, R. J. Hollingdale, and Marion FaberThus Spake Zarathustra (1885) Translated by Thomas CommonBeyond Good and Evil, Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886) Translated by Helen ZimmernThe Antichrist: Curse on Christianity (1888) Translated by H. L. MenckenThe Case of Wagner, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms (1888) Translated By Anthony M. LudovicUntimely Meditations or; Thoughts out of Season Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici and Adrian Collins:- David Strauss: The Confessor and the Writer (1873) - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (1876)- On the Use and Abuse of History for Life (1874) - Schopenhauer As Educator (1874) Appendix:Friedrich W. Nietzsche BiographyList of Works in Alphabetical Order
instinct in question. Any kind of cognizance of an indescribable excess in the joy of the bath, any kind of ardour or thirst which perpetually impels the soul out of night into the morning, and out of gloom, out of "affliction" into clearness, brightness, depth, and refinement:--just as much as such a tendency DISTINGUISHES--it is a noble tendency--it also SEPARATES.--The pity of the saint is pity for the FILTH of the human, all-too-human. And there are grades and heights where pity itself is
they see the Titan Prometheus in front of them and consider themselves every bit as real as the god of the scene. And is that supposed to be the highest and purest type of spectator, a person who, like the Oceanids, considers Prometheus vitally alive and real? Would it be a mark of the ideal spectator to run up onto the stage and free the god from his torment? We had believed in an aesthetic public and considered the individual spectator sufficiently capable, the more he was in a position to
that he could make men and, at the very least, destroy Olympian gods-all this through his higher wisdom, which he, of course, was compelled to atone for in eternal suffering. The magnificent capability of the great genius, for whom eternal suffering itself is too cheap a price, the harsh pride of the artist-that is the content and soul of Aeschylean poetry; whereas, Sophocles in his Oedipus makes his case by sounding out the victory song of the holy man. But also this meaning which Aeschylus
power of judgment: and so when one speaks to men of truth and justice, they will be ever troubled by the doubt whether it be the fanatic or the judge who is speaking to them. And they must be pardoned for always treating the "servants of truth" with special kindness, who possess neither the will nor the power to judge and have set before them the task of finding "pure knowledge without reference to consequences," knowledge, in plain terms, that comes to nothing. There are very many truths which
became I weary; and I see the time coming when it will become weary of itself. Yea, changed have I seen the poets, and their glance turned towards themselves. Penitents of the spirit have I seen appearing; they grew out of the poets.-- Thus spake Zarathustra. XL. GREAT EVENTS. There is an isle in the sea--not far from the Happy Isles of Zarathustra-- on which a volcano ever smoketh; of which isle the people, and especially the old women amongst them, say that it is placed as a rock before