item: #1 of 7 id: 18188 author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title: Homer and Classical Philology date: None words: 6686 flesch: 47 summary: There is no more dangerous assumption in modern æsthetics than that of _popular poetry_ and _individual poetry_, or, as it is usually called, _artistic poetry_. It was none other than Goethe who, in early life a supporter of Wolf's theories regarding Homer, recanted in the verses-- With subtle wit you took away Our former adoration: keywords: age; antiquity; artistic; classical; classical philology; conception; criticism; design; different; entire; epic; events; example; form; general; generation; genius; great; hand; history; homer; homeric; ideal; iliad; important; individual; individuality; life; long; man; masses; material; mere; new; odyssey; opinion; original; people; period; personality; philological; philologists; philology; pieces; place; poems; poet; poetical; poetry; point; popular; possible; present; problem; question; real; school; science; scientific; single; soul; standpoint; thought; time; tradition; view; way; wolf; wonderful; works; world; æsthetic cache: 18188.txt plain text: 18188.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 19322 author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title: The Antichrist date: None words: 34224 flesch: 63 summary: But the people still retained, as a projection of their highest yearnings, that vision of a king who was at once a gallant warrior and an upright judge--a vision best visualized in the typical prophet (_i. e._, critic and satirist of the moment), Isaiah.--But every hope remained unfulfilled. They put themselves _against_ all those conditions under which, hitherto, a people had been able to live, or had even been _permitted_ to live; out of themselves they evolved an idea which stood in direct opposition to _natural_ conditions--one by one they distorted religion, civilization, morality, history and psychology until each became a _contradiction_ of its _natural significance_. keywords: --the; able; acceptance; answer; antichrist; attack; attempt; bad; beginning; belief; best; better; blessedness; blood; body; book; botched; buddhism; cause; certain; chandala; chosen; christianity; christians; church; civilization; complete; concept; conception; conclusion; conditions; conscience; contempt; contradiction; contrary; conviction; corruption; courage; course; criticism; cross; cult; culture; dangerous; days; deal; death; democracy; denial; development; different; divine; doctrine; doubt; duty; décadence; early; earth; effort; egoism; end; enemies; enemy; english; error; established; eternal; evidence; evil; evolution; example; existence; experience; eye; face; fact; faith; false; far; feeling; form; formula; free; freedom; fundamental; general; genius; genuine; german; glad; god; gods; good; gospels; grand; great; greatest; hand; happiness; hatred; health; heart; heaven; higher; highest; historical; history; holy; hope; human; humanity; idea; imaginary; individual; influence; inner; instinct; integrity; intellectual; interest; israel; jesus; jewish; jews; joy; judge; judgment; kant; kingdom; knowledge; law; lie; lies; life; like; little; living; long; longer; look; love; lying; majority; making; man; mankind; manner; mark; master; meaning; means; men; mere; mind; misunderstanding; mob; moment; moral; morality; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; new; nietzsche; noble; notion; old; opposition; order; paul; people; perfection; philosophers; philosophy; pity; place; plain; pleasure; plutocracy; point; possible; power; present; priest; priestly; problem; process; profound; promises; proof; psychological; psychology; punishment; pure; question; race; reality; reason; religion; religious; remains; ressentiment; rest; revenge; right; rome; sacrifice; salvation; save; saviour; second; self; sense; sick; sickly; sin; sins; small; society; soil; sort; soul; sound; spirit; stand; state; step; strength; strong; struggle; suffering; superior; system; taste; theologians; theological; theory; things; thought; tidings; time; today; true; truth; type; typical; values; view; virtue; vision; war; way; weak; wisdom; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 19322.txt plain text: 19322.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 38145 author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits date: None words: 37205 flesch: 53 summary: Passion will not wait: the tragic element in the lives of great men does not generally consist in their conflict with time and the inferiority of their fellowmen but in their inability to put off their work a year or two: they cannot wait.--In all duels, the friends who advise have but to ascertain if the principals can wait: if this be not possible, a duel is rational inasmuch as each of the combatants may say: either I continue to live and the other dies instantly, or vice versa. By such men as are capable of this sadness--how few there are!--will the first attempt be made to see if humanity may convert itself from a thing of morality to a thing of wisdom. keywords: absolute; account; actions; acts; advantage; age; ages; ancient; art; aspect; away; bad; basis; belief; believe; best; better; body; brain; capable; capacity; case; certain; character; christian; christianity; church; circumstances; civilization; common; community; comparison; conception; condition; conduct; consequences; contempt; course; custom; day; death; deception; deep; degree; delight; delusion; depression; desire; developed; development; different; disposition; distrust; divine; domain; doubt; dream; earlier; effect; element; end; enduring; enemy; entire; erroneous; error; estimate; eternal; ethic; evil; evolution; example; existence; experience; explanation; extent; eyes; fact; faith; false; far; fearful; feeling; fellow; form; forward; foundation; free; freedom; fundamental; future; general; goal; god; good; goodness; great; greatest; greek; habit; hand; happiness; head; health; heart; higher; highest; historical; history; human; humanity; idea; ill; illogical; imagination; immoral; impulse; individual; influence; injury; inner; instance; intellectual; interest; joy; judgment; justice; knowledge; language; later; law; laws; life; light; like; little; lives; living; long; longing; look; love; makes; man; manifest; mankind; manner; matter; means; men; mere; metaphysical; mind; moments; moral; morality; motives; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; non; notions; number; object; observation; occasion; old; opinion; opposite; order; origin; pain; particular; party; passions; people; period; personal; personality; phenomena; philosophers; philosophy; picture; place; pleasure; point; possible; potent; power; powerful; praise; presence; present; preservation; problem; process; progress; psychological; purpose; question; rational; reality; reason; reference; regard; relation; religion; religious; responsibility; responsible; rest; result; revenge; rich; rule; sacrifice; saint; salvation; satisfaction; schopenhauer; science; scientific; self; sense; significance; sin; single; society; sort; soul; source; species; spirit; standard; standpoint; state; step; strength; strong; subject; suffering; sympathy; things; thought; time; traditional; true; truth; unegoistic; universal; unjust; utility; utmost; value; vanity; victory; view; virtue; way; welfare; wisdom; work; world; years cache: 38145.txt plain text: 38145.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 38226 author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title: Thoughts Out of Season, Part II date: None words: 55801 flesch: 62 summary: If you live yourselves back into the history of great men, you will find in it the high command to come to maturity and leave that blighting system of cultivation offered by your time: which sees its own profit in not allowing you to become ripe, that it may use and dominate you while you are yet unripe. The masses seem to be worth notice in three aspects only: first as the copies of great men, printed on bad paper from worn-out plates, next as a contrast to the great men, and lastly as their tools: for the rest, let the devil and statistics fly away with them! keywords: able; accustomed; action; active; activity; actual; age; ages; aim; air; ancient; answer; antiquarian; art; artist; artistic; arts; atmosphere; bad; battle; beast; beginning; belief; better; blind; books; broken; business; cast; cause; century; certain; change; chaos; character; child; christianity; clear; cold; common; comparison; complete; condition; consciousness; consequences; contrary; course; critical; criticism; cry; culture; danger; dangerous; day; death; deed; deep; degree; demand; denial; desire; different; difficult; dignity; doubt; duties; earth; educated; education; educator; effect; egoism; end; ends; essay; eternal; events; evil; evolution; example; excess; existence; experience; expression; eyes; fact; faith; fall; false; famous; far; fear; fearful; feeling; fire; force; foreign; forgetfulness; form; free; freedom; fruit; future; gain; general; generation; genius; german; german culture; god; goethe; good; great; great man; greater; greatest; greatness; greek; growth; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; hartmann; hate; hatred; health; heart; heavy; help; higher; highest; historical; historical culture; historical men; history; hold; honesty; honour; horizon; human; humanity; idea; illusion; important; impulse; individual; influence; inner; instinct; interest; inward; joy; judge; judgment; justice; knowledge; lack; later; laws; learned; lies; life; little; live; living; lonely; long; longer; look; lost; love; making; man; mankind; manner; mark; masses; matter; meaning; means; measure; men; mere; mind; modern; modern man; moment; monumental; monumental history; moral; motive; movement; nation; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; new; nietzsche; noble; number; object; objectivity; obscure; old; opinions; opposition; order; ordinary; original; outer; pain; particular; past; people; personality; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; phrase; picture; place; plato; point; political; possible; power; powerful; present; process; production; professor; profit; progress; public; pure; question; race; rare; rate; ready; real; reason; regard; relation; religion; remains; rest; result; return; reverence; right; ripe; rise; road; roots; round; run; sacrifice; sake; savant; saying; schopenhauer; science; search; second; secret; self; sense; seriousness; service; set; short; sick; significance; simple; sincerity; single; small; smallest; society; soul; spirit; spite; spring; stand; state; step; strange; stream; strength; strong; struggle; study; substance; success; suffering; super; system; talk; task; taste; thee; theory; thing; thinker; thinking; thought; time; tree; troubled; true; trust; truth; turn; unconscious; understanding; understood; unity; universal; universities; university; use; useful; usual; vain; value; victory; view; virtue; visible; vision; want; way; weak; wisdom; wish; wishes; words; work; world; worse; worth; writing; wrong; yearning; years; young; youth cache: 38226.txt plain text: 38226.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 4363 author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title: Beyond Good and Evil date: None words: 64157 flesch: 52 summary: It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority--where he may forget men who are the rule, as their exception;--exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense. keywords: able; account; accustomed; action; actual; ages; ancient; animal; answer; anti; appearance; arbitrary; aristocratic; artists; asia; attempt; average; bad; basis; beautiful; beings; belief; belong; best; betray; better; blood; body; books; bow; break; bring; calls; capacity; care; case; causes; centuries; century; certain; certainty; chapter; character; charm; child; christian; christianity; church; circumstances; class; classes; clumsy; coming; command; commanding; common; conception; condition; conscience; conscious; consequences; constraint; contrary; control; counter; courage; cruelty; culture; curiosity; dangerous; dangers; daring; day; definite; degree; delicate; delight; democratic; denial; depth; desirable; desire; development; different; difficult; discipline; disguise; disgust; distance; distinction; distress; distrust; divine; doctrine; domain; doubt; dreadful; duties; ears; earth; effect; elevation; emotions; end; english; enjoyment; entire; equal; equality; error; estimates; eternal; europe; european; events; evil; example; exception; exercise; existence; experiences; expression; extent; extraordinary; extravagant; eyes; fact; faculty; faith; false; far; favour; fear; feeling; finer; folly; force; foreign; form; formula; france; free; freedom; french; friends; fundamental; future; game; general; generation; genius; genuine; german; god; gods; goethe; good; great; greater; greatest; greatness; gregarious; ground; half; hand; happiness; hard; hatred; heart; help; herd; hidden; higher; highest; historical; history; hitherto; home; honest; honour; human; humanity; ideas; immediate; immense; imperative; impulse; independent; individual; influence; innocent; instance; instinct; intellectual; intention; intercourse; interpretation; involuntary; jews; judgments; justice; kant; kind; knowledge; lacking; language; late; law; life; like; little; lives; living; logical; long; longer; look; love; man; manifold; mankind; manner; mask; masters; matter; means; mediocre; memory; men; minds; misunderstood; modern; moment; morality; morals; movement; music; mysterious; napoleon; nations; natural; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; need; neighbour; new; noble; non; obedience; obvious; old; ones; opinion; opposed; opposite; order; ordinary; origin; original; painful; past; peculiar; people; period; person; personal; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physiological; pity; place; plato; play; plebeian; point; political; politics; poor; popular; possession; possible; power; powerful; praise; prejudice; presence; present; pride; principle; problem; process; profound; proud; psychologist; psychology; pure; purpose; qualities; question; race; rank; rare; ready; real; reality; reason; refined; refinement; regard; relation; religion; religious; remains; requirements; respect; responsibility; reverence; richard; right; rule; ruling; sacrifice; saint; sake; says; scholars; schopenhauer; scientific; second; secret; self; sensation; sense; sentiments; seriousness; severity; shame; short; sign; silence; similar; single; skepticism; slave; small; social; society; socrates; solitude; soul; speak; species; spirit; spiritual; spirituality; spite; stand; state; step; strange; strength; strong; stronger; struggle; stupidity; style; subject; subtle; subtlety; successful; suffering; super; superficial; superstition; supposing; supremacy; sure; suspicion; sympathy; systems; talk; task; taste; tempo; tendency; terrible; text; thee; things; think; thinker; thinking; thought; time; today; tragedy; true; truth; turn; type; tyranny; ultimate; uncertain; use; useful; utility; vain; valuations; value; vanity; view; virtues; wagner; want; way; weak; wicked; willing; wisdom; wish; wishes; woman; words; work; world; worst; worth; wrong; yea; young; youth cache: 4363.txt plain text: 4363.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 51710 author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title: Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. date: None words: 62292 flesch: 54 summary: In this respect, however, all shame has vanished--from the public as well as from the Master's mind: he is allowed, not merely to cross himself before the greatest and purest creations of German genius, as though he had perceived something godless and immoral in them, but people actually rejoice over his candid confessions and admission of sins--more particularly as he makes no mention of his own, but only of those which great men are said to have committed. And now ye presume that ye are going to be permitted, tamquam re bene gesta, to praise such men! keywords: ability; able; account; action; affairs; aim; ancient; answer; appeal; appearance; approach; arms; art; artist; artistic; arts; attack; attention; attitude; author; aware; bad; bayreuth; bear; beethoven; belief; believe; best; better; blessed; blind; body; book; breath; building; business; capable; care; case; certain; character; charm; christian; christianity; classical; classics; clear; comfort; coming; common; complete; concerned; confession; conscious; contemporaries; content; contrary; convinced; country; courage; course; creative; creator; creatures; cries; culture; danger; daring; david; david strauss; day; death; definite; delightful; desire; despair; development; different; difficult; direction; disraeli; distance; distress; dithyrambic; divine; doubt; dramatic; dramatist; dream; duty; earlier; earth; editor; education; effect; efforts; element; end; enemies; english; equipped; error; eternal; europe; events; evil; example; existence; experience; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faith; famous; far; fear; feeble; feeling; following; forces; form; free; freedom; french; friend; future; general; generation; genius; genuine; german; german culture; glance; god; goethe; good; great; greater; greatest; greatness; half; hand; happiness; haydn; heart; heaven; help; hero; hidden; higher; highest; history; hitherto; hold; home; honest; hopes; house; human; humanity; ideal; importance; individual; influence; instance; institutions; intellectual; joy; judge; judgment; justice; kant; kind; knowledge; known; lack; language; law; laws; leaves; left; lessing; life; like; literary; little; lives; lofty; long; look; lost; love; mankind; manner; master; matters; meaning; means; meet; men; mere; midst; mind; modern; moment; moral; morality; movement; music; musicians; mysterious; myth; narrow; nation; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; nietzsche; noble; notions; object; observer; oil; old; ones; opinion; order; original; page; pain; paper; particular; passages; passion; past; people; period; personal; philistine; philistinism; philosophers; philosophy; picture; pity; place; play; pleasure; poet; poetry; point; poor; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; praise; prepared; presence; present; problem; proper; prose; public; pure; purpose; question; race; reader; reading; ready; real; reality; reason; regard; relation; religion; religious; respect; rest; result; return; reverse; right; ring; road; rule; sacred; salvation; satisfied; scholars; schopenhauer; science; scientific; second; secret; seeing; self; sense; set; severe; sign; silence; simple; single; skill; small; society; sorrow; sort; soul; sound; speech; spirit; spite; spoken; stamp; standard; state; strange; strauss; straussian; strength; striking; strong; stronger; struggle; student; study; style; subject; sublime; success; sufficient; superior; talent; task; taste; terms; terrible; theatres; theme; theological; things; thinking; thought; thousands; time; tragic; triumph; true; truth; turn; type; unity; universe; use; value; victory; view; virtue; visible; voice; voltaire; wagner; war; water; way; weakness; wild; wish; wit; wonderful; words; work; world; worthy; wretched; writer; years; yoke; young; æsthetic cache: 51710.txt plain text: 51710.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 5652 author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm title: Thoughts out of Season, Part I date: None words: 62322 flesch: 53 summary: In this respect, however, all shame has vanished--from the public as well as from the Master's mind: he is allowed, not merely to cross himself before the greatest and purest creations of German genius, as though he had perceived something godless and immoral in them, but people actually rejoice over his candid confessions and admission of sins--more particularly as he makes no mention of his own, but only of those which great men are said to have committed. And now ye presume that ye are going to be permitted, tamquam re bene gesta, to praise such men! keywords: ability; able; account; action; aesthetic; affairs; aim; ancient; answer; appeal; appearance; approach; arms; art; artist; artistic; arts; attack; attention; attitude; author; aware; bad; bayreuth; bear; beethoven; belief; believe; best; better; blessed; blind; body; book; breath; building; business; capable; care; case; certain; character; charm; christian; christianity; classical; classics; clear; comfort; coming; common; complete; concerned; confession; conscious; contemporaries; content; contrary; convinced; country; courage; course; creative; creator; creatures; cries; culture; danger; daring; david; david strauss; day; death; definite; delightful; desire; despair; development; different; difficult; direction; disraeli; distance; distress; dithyrambic; divine; doubt; dramatic; dramatist; dream; duty; earlier; earth; editor; education; effect; efforts; element; end; enemies; english; equipped; error; eternal; europe; events; evil; example; existence; experience; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faith; famous; far; fear; feeble; feeling; following; forces; form; free; freedom; french; friend; future; general; generation; genius; genuine; german; german culture; glance; god; goethe; good; great; greater; greatest; greatness; greek; half; hand; happiness; haydn; heart; heaven; help; hero; hidden; higher; highest; history; hitherto; hold; home; honest; hopes; house; human; humanity; ideal; importance; individual; influence; instance; institutions; intellectual; joy; judge; judgment; justice; kant; kind; knowledge; known; lack; language; laws; leaves; left; lessing; life; like; literary; little; lives; living; lofty; long; look; lost; love; mankind; manner; master; matters; meaning; means; meet; men; mere; midst; mind; modern; moment; moral; morality; movement; music; musicians; mysterious; myth; narrow; nation; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; nietzsche; noble; notions; object; observer; oil; old; ones; opinion; order; original; page; pain; paper; particular; passages; passion; past; people; period; personal; philistine; philistinism; philosophers; philosophy; picture; pity; place; play; pleasure; poet; poetry; point; poor; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; praise; prepared; presence; present; problem; proper; prose; public; pure; purpose; question; race; reader; reading; ready; real; reality; reason; regard; relation; religion; religious; respect; rest; result; return; reverse; right; ring; road; rule; sacred; salvation; satisfied; scholars; schopenhauer; science; scientific; second; secret; seeing; self; sense; sentences; set; severe; sign; silence; simple; single; skill; small; society; sorrow; sort; soul; sound; speech; spirit; spite; spoken; stamp; standard; state; strange; strauss; straussian; strength; striking; strong; stronger; struggle; student; study; style; subject; sublime; success; sufficient; superior; talent; task; taste; terms; terrible; theatres; theme; theological; things; thinking; thought; thousands; time; tragic; triumph; true; truth; turn; type; unity; universe; use; value; victory; view; virtue; visible; voice; voltaire; wagner; war; water; way; weakness; wild; wish; wit; wonderful; words; work; world; worthy; wretched; writer; years; yoke; young cache: 5652.txt plain text: 5652.txt