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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
290. Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
290. Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being
Chapter 276
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Chapters
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
misunderstood. The latter perhaps wounds his vanity; but the former wounds his heart, his sympathy, which always says: "Ah, why would you also have as hard a time of it as I have?"
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