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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
121. It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

121. It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn

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Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Chapter 2: CHAPTER IX: WHAT IS NOBLE?
Chapter 3: 1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous
Chapter 4: 2. "HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth
Chapter 5: 3. Having kept a sharp eye on philosophers, and having read between
Chapter 6: 4. The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is
Chapter 7: 5. That which causes philosophers to be regarded half-distrustfully
Chapter 8: 6. It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up
Chapter 9: 7. How malicious philosophers can be! I know of nothing more stinging
Chapter 10: 8. There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of
Chapter 11: 9. You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what
Chapter 12: 10. The eagerness and subtlety, I should even say craftiness, with
Chapter 13: 11. It seems to me that there is everywhere an attempt at present to
Chapter 14: 12. As regards materialistic atomism, it is one of the best-refuted
Chapter 15: 13. Psychologists should bethink themselves before putting down the
Chapter 16: 14. It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that natural
Chapter 17: 15. To study physiology with a clear conscience, one must insist on
Chapter 18: 16. There are still harmless self-observers who believe that there are
Chapter 19: 17. With regard to the superstitions of logicians, I shall never tire
Chapter 20: 18. It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is
Chapter 21: 19. Philosophers are accustomed to speak of the will as though it were
Chapter 22: 20. That the separate philosophical ideas are not anything optional or
Chapter 23: 21. The CAUSA SUI is the best self-contradiction that has yet been
Chapter 24: 22. Let me be pardoned, as an old philologist who cannot desist from
Chapter 25: 23. All psychology hitherto has run aground on moral prejudices and
Chapter 26: 24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and
Chapter 27: 25. After such a cheerful commencement, a serious word would fain be
Chapter 28: 26. Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy,
Chapter 29: 27. It is difficult to be understood, especially when one thinks and
Chapter 30: 28. What is most difficult to render from one language into another
Chapter 31: 29. It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a
Chapter 32: 30. Our deepest insights must--and should--appear as follies, and under
Chapter 33: 31. In our youthful years we still venerate and despise without the art
Chapter 34: 32. Throughout the longest period of human history--one calls it the
Chapter 35: 33. It cannot be helped: the sentiment of surrender, of sacrifice for
Chapter 36: 34. At whatever standpoint of philosophy one may place oneself nowadays,
Chapter 37: 35. O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in
Chapter 38: 36. Supposing that nothing else is "given" as real but our world of
Chapter 39: 37. "What? Does not that mean in popular language: God is disproved, but
Chapter 40: 38. As happened finally in all the enlightenment of modern times with
Chapter 41: 39. Nobody will very readily regard a doctrine as true merely because
Chapter 42: 40. Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things
Chapter 43: 41. One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined
Chapter 44: 42. A new order of philosophers is appearing; I shall venture to baptize
Chapter 45: 43. Will they be new friends of "truth," these coming philosophers? Very
Chapter 46: 44. Need I say expressly after all this that they will be free, VERY
Chapter 47: 45. The human soul and its limits, the range of man's inner experiences
Chapter 48: 46. Faith, such as early Christianity desired, and not infrequently
Chapter 49: 47. Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far,
Chapter 50: 48. It seems that the Latin races are far more deeply attached to their
Chapter 51: 49. That which is so astonishing in the religious life of the ancient
Chapter 52: 50. The passion for God: there are churlish, honest-hearted, and
Chapter 53: 51. The mightiest men have hitherto always bowed reverently before
Chapter 54: 52. In the Jewish "Old Testament," the book of divine justice, there are
Chapter 55: 53. Why Atheism nowadays? "The father" in God is thoroughly refuted;
Chapter 56: 54. What does all modern philosophy mainly do? Since Descartes--and
Chapter 57: 55. There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, with many rounds; but
Chapter 58: 56. Whoever, like myself, prompted by some enigmatical desire, has long
Chapter 59: 57. The distance, and as it were the space around man, grows with the
Chapter 60: 58. Has it been observed to what extent outward idleness, or
Chapter 61: 59. Whoever has seen deeply into the world has doubtless divined what
Chapter 62: 60. To love mankind FOR GOD'S SAKE--this has so far been the noblest and
Chapter 63: 61. The philosopher, as WE free spirits understand him--as the man of
Chapter 64: 62. To be sure--to make also the bad counter-reckoning against such
Chapter 65: 63. He who is a thorough teacher takes things seriously--and even
Chapter 66: 64. "Knowledge for its own sake"--that is the last snare laid by
Chapter 67: 65. The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not so much shame has
Chapter 68: 66. The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed,
Chapter 69: 67. Love to one only is a barbarity, for it is exercised at the expense
Chapter 70: 68. "I did that," says my memory. "I could not have done that," says my
Chapter 71: 69. One has regarded life carelessly, if one has failed to see the hand
Chapter 72: 70. If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which
Chapter 73: 71. THE SAGE AS ASTRONOMER.--So long as thou feelest the stars as an
Chapter 74: 72. It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that
Chapter 75: 73. He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
Chapter 76: 74. A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things
Chapter 77: 75. The degree and nature of a man's sensuality extends to the highest
Chapter 78: 77. With his principles a man seeks either to dominate, or justify,
Chapter 79: 78. He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself thereby, as a
Chapter 80: 79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love,
Chapter 81: 80. A thing that is explained ceases to concern us--What did the God
Chapter 82: 81. It is terrible to die of thirst at sea. Is it necessary that you
Chapter 83: 82. "Sympathy for all"--would be harshness and tyranny for THEE, my good
Chapter 84: 83. INSTINCT--When the house is on fire one forgets even the
Chapter 85: 85. The same emotions are in man and woman, but in different TEMPO, on
Chapter 86: 86. In the background of all their personal vanity, women themselves
Chapter 87: 87. FETTERED HEART, FREE SPIRIT--When one firmly fetters one's heart
Chapter 88: 88. One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become
Chapter 89: 89. Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences
Chapter 90: 90. Heavy, melancholy men turn lighter, and come temporarily to their
Chapter 91: 91. So cold, so icy, that one burns one's finger at the touch of him!
Chapter 92: 92. Who has not, at one time or another--sacrificed himself for the sake
Chapter 93: 93. In affability there is no hatred of men, but precisely on that
Chapter 94: 94. The maturity of man--that means, to have reacquired the seriousness
Chapter 95: 95. To be ashamed of one's immorality is a step on the ladder at the end
Chapter 96: 96. One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa--blessing
Chapter 97: 97. What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own
Chapter 98: 99. THE DISAPPOINTED ONE SPEAKS--"I listened for the echo and I heard
Chapter 99: 100. We all feign to ourselves that we are simpler than we are, we thus
Chapter 100: 101. A discerning one might easily regard himself at present as the
Chapter 101: 102. Discovering reciprocal love should really disenchant the lover with
Chapter 102: 103. THE DANGER IN HAPPINESS.--"Everything now turns out best for me, I
Chapter 103: 104. Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love,
Chapter 104: 105. The pia fraus is still more repugnant to the taste (the "piety")
Chapter 105: 107. A sign of strong character, when once the resolution has been
Chapter 106: 108. There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral
Chapter 107: 109. The criminal is often enough not equal to his deed: he extenuates
Chapter 108: 110. The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the
Chapter 109: 111. Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been
Chapter 110: 112. To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to
Chapter 111: 113. "You want to prepossess him in your favour? Then you must be
Chapter 112: 114. The immense expectation with regard to sexual love, and the coyness
Chapter 113: 115. Where there is neither love nor hatred in the game, woman's play is
Chapter 114: 116. The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage
Chapter 115: 117. The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of
Chapter 116: 118. There is an innocence of admiration: it is possessed by him to whom
Chapter 117: 119. Our loathing of dirt may be so great as to prevent our cleaning
Chapter 118: 120. Sensuality often forces the growth of love too much, so that its
Chapter 119: 121. It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn
Chapter 120: 122. To rejoice on account of praise is in many cases merely politeness
Chapter 121: 124. He who exults at the stake, does not triumph over pain, but because
Chapter 122: 125. When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily
Chapter 123: 126. A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at six or seven great
Chapter 124: 127. In the eyes of all true women science is hostile to the sense of
Chapter 125: 128. The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you
Chapter 126: 129. The devil has the most extensive perspectives for God; on that
Chapter 127: 130. What a person IS begins to betray itself when his talent
Chapter 128: 131. The sexes deceive themselves about each other: the reason is that
Chapter 129: 133. He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and
Chapter 130: 134. From the senses originate all trustworthiness, all good conscience,
Chapter 131: 135. Pharisaism is not a deterioration of the good man; a considerable
Chapter 132: 136. The one seeks an accoucheur for his thoughts, the other seeks some
Chapter 133: 137. In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes
Chapter 134: 138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and
Chapter 135: 140. ADVICE AS A RIDDLE.--"If the band is not to break, bite it
Chapter 136: 141. The belly is the reason why man does not so readily take himself
Chapter 137: 142. The chastest utterance I ever heard: "Dans le veritable amour c'est
Chapter 138: 143. Our vanity would like what we do best to pass precisely for what is
Chapter 139: 144. When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally
Chapter 140: 145. Comparing man and woman generally, one may say that woman would
Chapter 141: 146. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby
Chapter 142: 147. From old Florentine novels--moreover, from life: Buona femmina e
Chapter 143: 148. To seduce their neighbour to a favourable opinion, and afterwards
Chapter 144: 149. That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of
Chapter 145: 150. Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the
Chapter 146: 151. It is not enough to possess a talent: one must also have your
Chapter 147: 152. "Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise":
Chapter 148: 154. Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of
Chapter 149: 156. Insanity in individuals is something rare--but in groups, parties,
Chapter 150: 157. The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one
Chapter 151: 158. Not only our reason, but also our conscience, truckles to our
Chapter 152: 159. One MUST repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us
Chapter 153: 160. One no longer loves one's knowledge sufficiently after one has
Chapter 154: 162. "Our fellow-creature is not our neighbour, but our neighbour's
Chapter 155: 163. Love brings to light the noble and hidden qualities of a lover--his
Chapter 156: 164. Jesus said to his Jews: "The law was for servants;--love God as I
Chapter 157: 165. IN SIGHT OF EVERY PARTY.--A shepherd has always need of a
Chapter 158: 166. One may indeed lie with the mouth; but with the accompanying
Chapter 159: 167. To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something
Chapter 160: 168. Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it,
Chapter 161: 169. To talk much about oneself may also be a means of concealing
Chapter 162: 171. Pity has an almost ludicrous effect on a man of knowledge, like
Chapter 163: 172. One occasionally embraces some one or other, out of love to mankind
Chapter 164: 173. One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one
Chapter 165: 174. Ye Utilitarians--ye, too, love the UTILE only as a VEHICLE for
Chapter 166: 176. The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is
Chapter 167: 177. With regard to what "truthfulness" is, perhaps nobody has ever been
Chapter 168: 178. One does not believe in the follies of clever men: what a
Chapter 169: 179. The consequences of our actions seize us by the forelock, very
Chapter 170: 180. There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a
Chapter 171: 182. The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be
Chapter 172: 183. "I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can
Chapter 173: 184. There is a haughtiness of kindness which has the appearance of
Chapter 174: 185. "I dislike him."--Why?--"I am not a match for him."--Did any one
Chapter 175: 186. The moral sentiment in Europe at present is perhaps as subtle,
Chapter 176: 187. Apart from the value of such assertions as "there is a categorical
Chapter 177: 188. In contrast to laisser-aller, every system of morals is a sort of
Chapter 178: 189. Industrious races find it a great hardship to be idle: it was a
Chapter 179: 190. There is something in the morality of Plato which does not really
Chapter 180: 191. The old theological problem of "Faith" and "Knowledge," or more
Chapter 181: 192. Whoever has followed the history of a single science, finds in
Chapter 182: 193. Quidquid luce fuit, tenebris agit: but also contrariwise. What we
Chapter 183: 194. The difference among men does not manifest itself only in the
Chapter 184: 195. The Jews--a people "born for slavery," as Tacitus and the whole
Chapter 185: 196. It is to be INFERRED that there are countless dark bodies near the
Chapter 186: 197. The beast of prey and the man of prey (for instance, Caesar Borgia)
Chapter 187: 198. All the systems of morals which address themselves with a view to
Chapter 188: 199. Inasmuch as in all ages, as long as mankind has existed, there have
Chapter 189: 200. The man of an age of dissolution which mixes the races with
Chapter 190: 201. As long as the utility which determines moral estimates is only
Chapter 191: 202. Let us at once say again what we have already said a hundred
Chapter 192: 203. We, who hold a different belief--we, who regard the democratic
Chapter 193: 204. At the risk that moralizing may also reveal itself here as that
Chapter 194: 205. The dangers that beset the evolution of the philosopher are, in
Chapter 195: 206. In relation to the genius, that is to say, a being who either
Chapter 196: 207. However gratefully one may welcome the OBJECTIVE spirit--and
Chapter 197: 208. When a philosopher nowadays makes known that he is not a skeptic--I
Chapter 198: 209. As to how far the new warlike age on which we Europeans have
Chapter 199: 210. Supposing, then, that in the picture of the philosophers of the
Chapter 200: 211. I insist upon it that people finally cease confounding
Chapter 201: 212. It is always more obvious to me that the philosopher, as a man
Chapter 202: 213. It is difficult to learn what a philosopher is, because it cannot
Chapter 203: 214. OUR Virtues?--It is probable that we, too, have still our virtues,
Chapter 204: 215. As in the stellar firmament there are sometimes two suns which
Chapter 205: 216. To love one's enemies? I think that has been well learnt: it takes
Chapter 206: 217. Let us be careful in dealing with those who attach great importance
Chapter 207: 218. The psychologists of France--and where else are there still
Chapter 208: 219. The practice of judging and condemning morally, is the favourite
Chapter 209: 220. Now that the praise of the "disinterested person" is so popular
Chapter 210: 221. "It sometimes happens," said a moralistic pedant and
Chapter 211: 222. Wherever sympathy (fellow-suffering) is preached nowadays--and,
Chapter 212: 223. The hybrid European--a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in
Chapter 213: 224. The historical sense (or the capacity for divining quickly
Chapter 214: 225. Whether it be hedonism, pessimism, utilitarianism, or eudaemonism,
Chapter 215: 226. WE IMMORALISTS.--This world with which WE are concerned, in which
Chapter 216: 227. Honesty, granting that it is the virtue of which we cannot rid
Chapter 217: 228. I hope to be forgiven for discovering that all moral philosophy
Chapter 218: 229. In these later ages, which may be proud of their humanity, there
Chapter 219: 230. Perhaps what I have said here about a "fundamental will of the
Chapter 220: 231. Learning alters us, it does what all nourishment does that does not
Chapter 221: 232. Woman wishes to be independent, and therefore she begins to
Chapter 222: 233. It betrays corruption of the instincts--apart from the fact that
Chapter 223: 234. Stupidity in the kitchen; woman as cook; the terrible
Chapter 224: 235. There are turns and casts of fancy, there are sentences, little
Chapter 225: 236. I have no doubt that every noble woman will oppose what Dante and
Chapter 226: 238. To be mistaken in the fundamental problem of "man and woman," to
Chapter 227: 239. The weaker sex has in no previous age been treated with so
Chapter 228: 240. I HEARD, once again for the first time, Richard Wagner's overture
Chapter 229: 241. We "good Europeans," we also have hours when we allow ourselves a
Chapter 230: 242. Whether we call it "civilization," or "humanising," or "progress,"
Chapter 231: 243. I hear with pleasure that our sun is moving rapidly towards the
Chapter 232: 244. There was a time when it was customary to call Germans "deep"
Chapter 233: 245. The "good old" time is past, it sang itself out in Mozart--how
Chapter 234: EPISODE of German music. But with regard to Robert Schumann, who took
Chapter 235: 246. What a torture are books written in German to a reader who has a
Chapter 236: 247. How little the German style has to do with harmony and with the
Chapter 237: 248. There are two kinds of geniuses: one which above all engenders and
Chapter 238: 249. Every nation has its own "Tartuffery," and calls that its
Chapter 239: 250. What Europe owes to the Jews?--Many things, good and bad, and above
Chapter 240: 251. It must be taken into the bargain, if various clouds and
Chapter 241: 252. They are not a philosophical race--the English: Bacon represents an
Chapter 242: 253. There are truths which are best recognized by mediocre minds,
Chapter 243: 254. Even at present France is still the seat of the most intellectual
Chapter 244: 255. I hold that many precautions should be taken against German music.
Chapter 245: 256. Owing to the morbid estrangement which the nationality-craze has
Chapter 246: 257. EVERY elevation of the type "man," has hitherto been the work of an
Chapter 247: 258. Corruption--as the indication that anarchy threatens to break out
Chapter 248: 259. To refrain mutually from injury, from violence, from exploitation,
Chapter 249: 260. In a tour through the many finer and coarser moralities which have
Chapter 250: 261. Vanity is one of the things which are perhaps most difficult for
Chapter 251: 262. A SPECIES originates, and a type becomes established and strong in
Chapter 252: 263. There is an INSTINCT FOR RANK, which more than anything else is
Chapter 253: 264. It cannot be effaced from a man's soul what his ancestors have
Chapter 254: 265. At the risk of displeasing innocent ears, I submit that egoism
Chapter 255: 266. "One can only truly esteem him who does not LOOK OUT FOR
Chapter 256: 267. The Chinese have a proverb which mothers even teach their children:
Chapter 257: 268. What, after all, is ignobleness?--Words are vocal symbols for
Chapter 258: 269. The more a psychologist--a born, an unavoidable psychologist
Chapter 259: 270. The intellectual haughtiness and loathing of every man who has
Chapter 260: 271. That which separates two men most profoundly is a different sense
Chapter 261: 272. Signs of nobility: never to think of lowering our duties to the
Chapter 262: 273. A man who strives after great things, looks upon every one whom
Chapter 263: 274. THE PROBLEM OF THOSE WHO WAIT.--Happy chances are necessary, and
Chapter 264: 275. He who does not WISH to see the height of a man, looks all the
Chapter 265: 276. In all kinds of injury and loss the lower and coarser soul is
Chapter 266: 277. It is too bad! Always the old story! When a man has finished
Chapter 267: 279. Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they
Chapter 268: 280. "Bad! Bad! What? Does he not--go back?" Yes! But you misunderstand
Chapter 269: 283. If one wishes to praise at all, it is a delicate and at the
Chapter 270: 284. To live in a vast and proud tranquility; always beyond... To have,
Chapter 271: 285. The greatest events and thoughts--the greatest thoughts, however,
Chapter 272: 286. "Here is the prospect free, the mind exalted." [FOOTNOTE: Goethe's
Chapter 273: 287. What is noble? What does the word "noble" still mean for us
Chapter 274: 288. There are men who are unavoidably intellectual, let them turn
Chapter 275: 289. In the writings of a recluse one always hears something of the echo
Chapter 276: 290. Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being
Chapter 277: 291. Man, a COMPLEX, mendacious, artful, and inscrutable animal, uncanny
Chapter 278: 292. A philosopher: that is a man who constantly experiences, sees,
Chapter 279: 293. A man who says: "I like that, I take it for my own, and mean to
Chapter 280: 294. THE OLYMPIAN VICE.--Despite the philosopher who, as a genuine
Chapter 281: 295. The genius of the heart, as that great mysterious one possesses
Chapter 282: 296. Alas! what are you, after all, my written and painted thoughts! Not

author--and that he did not learn it better.

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