item: #1 of 6 id: 36111 author: Heller, Otto title: Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy date: None words: 43052 flesch: 57 summary: The main thesis of his mystical belief is that there are divine forces dormant in human nature; how to arouse and release them, constitutes the paramount problem of human life. _L'Oiseau Bleu_ (The Blue Bird), above all other works, illustrates the fact that human lives suffer not so much for the lack of happiness as for the want of being clearly conscious of the happiness they possess. keywords: age; art; author; book; case; character; day; death; existence; fact; fate; general; good; happiness; human; intellectual; life; living; love; maeterlinck; man; means; men; mind; moral; nature; new; nietzsche; order; people; philosophy; plays; power; purpose; question; reason; right; self; sense; society; soul; story; strindberg; theory; things; thought; time; tolstoy; view; war; way; woman; work; world; zarathustra cache: 36111.txt plain text: 36111.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 47588 author: Brandes, Georg title: Friedrich Nietzsche date: None words: 37425 flesch: 68 summary: Nevertheless the self-contradiction we find in asceticism--life turned _against_ life--is of course only apparent. Thus Renan says, almost in the same words: In fine, the object of humanity is the production of great men ... nothing but great men; salvation will come from great men. keywords: book; brandes; conscience; course; culture; day; fact; feeling; form; french; german; good; history; human; idea; letter; life; love; men; morality; nature; new; nietzsche; order; people; pity; power; schopenhauer; self; sense; state; things; thought; time; view; wagner; way; work; world; years; zarathustra cache: 47588.txt plain text: 47588.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 48495 author: Carus, Paul title: Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism date: None words: 35214 flesch: 61 summary: In spite of identifying the self with the body, which is mortal, Nietzsche longs for the immortal. Among all the philosophies of modern times there is perhaps none which in its inmost principle is more thoroughly opposed to our own than Nietzsche's, and yet there are some points of mutual contact which are well worth pointing out. keywords: art; book; der; deussen; existence; form; friedrich nietzsche; german; god; good; great; human; ideal; individual; life; love; man; mankind; men; morality; nature; nietzsche; order; overman; people; philosophy; power; reason; right; rules; science; self; sense; spirit; standard; state; stirner; things; thought; time; truth; world; zarathustra cache: 48495.txt plain text: 48495.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 49316 author: Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) title: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche date: None words: 82110 flesch: 63 summary: The Case of Wagner (including Nietzsche _contra_ Wagner and selected aphorisms), translated by A. M. Ludovici, and We Philologists, translated by J. M. Kennedy, with prefaces by the translators. Therefore, it came to be recognized at the very beginning of civilization, that the man who killed other men was a foe to those conditions which the average man had to seek in order to exist--to peace and order and quiet and security. keywords: argument; beings; book; christianity; class; course; death; der; die; earth; effort; end; english; existence; fact; far; german; god; gods; good; greek; happiness; history; human; idea; individual; instinct; knowledge; law; laws; life; live; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; morality; music; new; nietzsche; nietzsche nietzsche; philosophy; place; power; progress; race; result; sacrifice; schopenhauer; science; self; sense; set; slave; sort; state; superman; theory; things; thought; time; today; truth; wagner; way; woman; work; world; years; zarathustra cache: 49316.txt plain text: 49316.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 53260 author: Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) title: Nietzsche: His Life and Works date: None words: 22359 flesch: 63 summary: _Erinnerungen an Friedrich Nietzsche_, by Deussen. _Nietzsche, sein Leben und sein Werk_, by Raoul Richter. AND 'Notes to Zarathustra' PREFACE BY DR. OSCAR LEVY CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD London 1910 Introduction The commission for a book on Nietzsche, to form the latest addition to a series of famous philosophers, is most certainly a sign that the age of adversity, through which the earlier Nietzscheans had to struggle, has at last come to an end. keywords: christian; day; democracy; earth; egoism; evil; fact; god; good; human; life; man; men; morality; nietzsche; order; people; power; question; things; thought; time; type; values; work; world cache: 53260.txt plain text: 53260.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 53622 author: Wright, Willard Huntington title: What Nietzsche Taught date: None words: 92082 flesch: 61 summary: The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires: so it is that punishment _tames_ man, but does not make him better--it would be more correct even to go so far as to assert the contrary. Consequently_ man must be made unhappy,--this has been the argument of the priest of all ages.--You have already divined what, in accordance with such a manner of arguing, must first have come into the world:--sin.... keywords: art; belief; book; cause; christian; christianity; conditions; conscience; culture; day; death; doctrine; end; evil; existence; fact; feeling; form; future; god; good; happiness; history; human; ideal; individual; instincts; knowledge; life; love; man; mankind; means; men; mind; modern; morality; morals; nature; new; nietzsche; order; origin; people; philosophy; place; power; present; punishment; reason; self; spirit; state; things; thought; time; truth; values; virtue; way; woman; work; world cache: 53622.txt plain text: 53622.txt