Table Of Contents:
A Note on the Text vi(1)
Abbreviations vii
Translator's Introduction 3(29)
Nietzsche's Preface for the Second Edition 32(7)
"Joke, Cunning, and Revenge": Prelude in German Rhymes 39(2)

1. Invitation 41(1)

2. My Happiness 41(1)

3. Undaunted 41(1)

4. Dialogue 41(2)

5. To the Virtuous 43(1)

6. Wordly Wisdom 43(1)

7. Vademecum--Vadetecum 43(1)

8. Shedding the Third Skin 43(2)

9. My Roses 45(1)

10. Scorn 45(1)

11. The Proverb Speaks 45(1)

12. To a Light-Lover 45(2)

13. For Dancers 47(1)

14. The Good Man 47(1)

15. Rust 47(1)

16. Up 47(1)

17. The Maxim of the Brute 47(1)

18. Narrow Souls 47(1)

19. The Involuntary Seducer 47(2)

20. For your Consideration 49(1)

21. Against Airs 49(1)

22. Man and Woman 49(1)

23. Interpretation 49(1)

24. Medicine for Pessimists 49(1)

25. Request 49(2)

26. My Hardness 51(1)

27. The Wanderer 51(1)

28. Consolation for Beginners 51(2)

29. The Egoism of the Stars 53(1)

30. The Neighbor 53(1)

31. The Disguised Saint 53(1)

32. The Unfree Man 53(1)

33. The Solitary 53(2)

34. Seneca et hoc genus omne 55(1)

35. Ice 55(1)

36. Juvenilia 55(1)

37. Caution 55(2)

38. The Pious Retort 57(1)

39. In the Summer 57(1)

40. Without Envy 57(1)

41. Heraclitean 57(2)

42. Principle of the Overly Refined 59(1)

43. Admonition 59(1)

44. The Thorough Who Get to the Bottom of Things 59(1)

45. Forever 59(2)

46. Judgments of the Weary 61(1)

47. Decline 61(1)

48. Against the Laws 61(1)

49. The Sage Speaks 61(2)

50. Lost His Head 63(1)

51. Pious Wishes 63(1)

52. Writing with One's Feet 63(1)

53. Human, All Too Human: A Book 63(1)

54. To My Reader 63(2)

55. Realistic Painters 65(1)

56. Poet's Vanity 65(1)

57. Choosy Taste 65(1)

58. A Crooked Nose 65(1)

59. The Pen is Stubborn 65(2)

60. Higher Men 67(1)

61. The Skeptic Speaks 67(1)

62. Ecce Homo 67(2)

63. Star Morals 69(2)
BOOK ONE 71(48)

1. The teachers of the purpose of existence 73(3)

2. The intellectual conscience 76(1)

3. Noble and common 77(2)

4. What preserves the species 79(1)

5. Unconditional duties 80(1)

6. Loss of dignity 81(1)

7. Something for the industrious 81(1)

8. Unconscious virtues 82(1)

9. Our eruptions 83(1)

10. A kind of atavism 84(1)

11. Consciousness 84(1)

12. On the aim of science 85(1)

13. On the doctrine of the feeling of power 86(2)

14. The things people call love 88(1)

15. From a distance 89(1)

16. Over the footbridge 90(1)

17. Finding motives for our poverty 90(1)

18. The pride of classical antiquity 91(1)

19. Evil 91(1)

20. The dignity of folly 92(1)

21. To the teachers of selfishness 92(3)

22. L'ordre du jour pour le roi 95(1)

23. The signs of corruption 96(2)

24. Diverse dissatisfaction 98(2)

25. Not predestined for knowledge 100(1)

26. What is life? 100(1)

27. The man of renunciation 100(1)

28. To be harmful with what is best in us 101(1)

29. Add lies 101(1)

30. The comedy played by the famous 102(1)

31. Trade and nobility 102(1)

32. Undesirable disciples 103(1)

33. Outside the lecture hall 104(1)

34. Historia abscondita 104(1)

35. Heresy and witchcraft 104(1)

36. Last words 105(1)

37. Owing to three errors 105(1)

38. The explosive ones 106(1)

39. Changed taste 106(1)

40. On the lack of noble manners 107(1)

41. Against remorse 108(1)

42. Work and boredom 108(1)

43. What laws betray 109(1)

44. Supposed motives 109(1)

45. Epicurus 110(1)

46. Our amazement 111(1)

47. On the suppression of the passions 112(1)

48. Knowledge of misery 112(2)

49. Magnanimity and related matters 114(1)

50. The argument of growing solitude 114(1)

51. Truthfulness 115(1)

52. What others know about us 115(1)

53. Where the good begins 115(1)

54. The consciousness of appearance 116(1)

55. The ultimate noblemindedness 117(1)

56. The craving for suffering 117(2)
BOOK TWO 119(46)

57. To the realists 121(1)

58. Only as creators! 121(1)

59. We artists 122(1)

60. Women and their action at a distance 123(1)

61. In honor of friendship 124(1)

62. Love 124(1)

63. Woman in music 124(1)

64. Skeptics 125(1)

65. Devotion 125(1)

66. The strength of the weak 125(1)

67. Simulating--oneself 125(1)

68. Will and willingness 126(1)

69. Capacity for revenge 126(1)

70. Women who master the masters 127(1)

71. On female chastity 127(1)

72. Mothers 128(1)

73. Holy cruelty 129(1)

74. Failures 129(1)

75. The third sex 130(1)

76. The greatest danger 130(1)

77. The animal with a good conscience 131(1)

78. What should win our gratitude 132(1)

79. The attraction of imperfection 133(1)

80. Art and nature 134(2)

81. Greek taste 136(1)

82. Esprit as un-Greek 136(1)

83. Translations 136(2)

84. On the origin of poetry 138(3)

85. The good and the beautiful 141(1)

86. Of the theater 141(1)

87. Of the vanity of artists 142(2)

88. Being serious about truth 144(1)

89. Now and formerly 144(1)

90. Lights and shadows 144(1)

91. Caution 145(1)

92. Prose and poetry 145(1)

93. But why do you write? 146(1)

94. Growth after death 146(2)

95. Chamfort 148(1)

96. Two speakers 149(1)

97. Of the garrulousness of writers 150(1)

98. In praise of Shakespeare 150(2)

99. Schopenhauer's followers 152(4)

100. Learning to pay homage 156(1)

101. Voltaire 157(1)

102. A remark for philologists 157(1)

103. Of German music 158(2)

104. Of the sound of the German language 160(2)

105. The Germans as artists 162(1)

106. Music as an advocate 162(1)

107. Our ultimate gratitude to art 163(2)
BOOK THREE 165(56)

108. New struggles 167(1)

109. Let us beware 167(2)

110. Origin of knowledge 169(2)

111. Origin of the logical 171(1)

112. Cause and effect 172(1)

113. On the doctrine of poisons 173(1)

114. How far the moral sphere extends 173(1)

115. The four errors 174(1)

116. Herd instinct 174(1)

117. Herd remorse 175(1)

118. Benevolence 175(1)

119. No altruism! 176(1)

120. Health of the soul 176(1)

121. Life no argument 177(1)

122. Moral skepticism in Christianity 178(1)

123. Knowledge as more than a mere means 178(2)

124. In the horizon of the infinite 180(1)

125. The madman 181(1)

126. Mystical explanations 182(1)

127. Aftereffects of the most ancient religiosity 183(1)

128. The value of prayer 184(1)

129. The conditions for God 185(1)

130. A dangerous resolve 185(1)

131. Christianity and suicide 185(1)

132. Against Christianity 186(1)

133. Principle 186(1)

134. Pessimists as victims 186(1)

135. Origin of sin 187(1)

136. The chosen people 188(1)

137. Speaking in a parable 189(1)

138. Christ's error 189(1)

139. The color of the passions 189(1)

140. Too Jewish 190(1)

141. Too Oriental 190(1)

142. Frankincense 191(1)

143. The greatest advantage of polytheism 191(1)

144. Religious wars 192(1)

145. Danger for vegetarians 193(1)

146. German hopes 193(1)

147. Question and answer 194(1)

148. Where reformations occur 194(1)

149. The failure of reformations 194(2)

150. On the critique of saints 196(1)

151. Of the origin of religion 196(1)

152. The greatest change 196(1)

153. Homo poeta 197(1)

154. Different types of dangerous lives 197(1)

155. What we lack 198(1)

156. Who is most influential 198(1)

157. Mentiri 198(1)

158. An inconvenient trait 198(1)

159. Every virtue has its age 198(1)

160. Dealing with virtues 199(1)

161. To those who love the age 199(1)

162. Egoism 199(1)

163. After a great victory 199(1)

164. Those who seek rest 199(1)

165. The happiness of those who have renounced something 199(1)

166. Always in our own company 200(1)

167. Misanthropy and love 200(1)

168. Of a sick man 200(1)

169. Open enemies 201(1)

170. With the crowd 201(1)

171. Fame 201(1)

172. Spoiling the taste 201(1)

173. Being profound and seeming profound 201(1)

174. Apart 202(1)

175. Of eloquence 202(1)

176. Pity 202(1)

177. On "the educational establishment" 202(1)

178. On moral enlightenment 203(1)

179. Thoughts 203(1)

180. A good age for free spirits 203(1)

181. Following and walking ahead 203(1)

182. In solitude 203(1)

183. The music of the best future 203(1)

184. Justice 204(1)

185. Poor 204(1)

186. Bad conscience 204(1)

187. Offensive presentation 204(1)

188. Work 204(1)

189. The thinker 205(1)

190. Against those who praise 205(1)

191. Against many a defense 205(1)

192. The good-natured 205(1)

193. Kant's joke 205(1)

194. The "openhearted" 206(1)

195. Laughable 206(1)

196. Limits of our hearing 206(1)

197. Better watch out! 206(1)

198. Chagrin of the proud 206(1)

199. Liberality 206(1)

200. Laughter 207(1)

201. Applause 207(1)

202. A squanderer 207(1)

203. Hic niger est 207(1)

204. Beggars and courtesy 207(1)

205. Need 207(1)

206. When it rains 208(1)

207. The envious 208(1)

208. Great man 208(1)

209. One way of asking for reasons 208(1)

210. Moderation in industriousness 208(1)

211. Secret enemies 208(1)

212. Not to be deceived 209(1)

213. The way to happiness 209(1)

214. Faith makes blessed 209(1)

215. Ideal and material 209(1)

216. Danger in the voice 210(1)

217. Cause and effect 210(1)

218. My antipathy 210(1)

219. The purpose of punishment 210(1)

220. Sacrifice 210(1)

221. Consideration 210(1)

222. Poet and liar 210(1)

223. Vicarious senses 211(1)

224. Animals as critics 211(1)

225. The natural 211(1)

226. Mistrust and style 211(1)

227. Bad reasoning, bad shot 211(1)

228. Against mediators 212(1)

229. Obstinacy and faithfulness 212(1)

230. Dearth of silence 212(1)

231. The "thorough" 212(1)

232. Dreams 212(1)

233. The most dangerous point of view 212(1)

234. A musician's comfort 213(1)

235. Spirit and character 213(1)

236. To move the crowd 213(1)

237. Polite 213(1)

238. Without envy 213(1)

239. Joyless 214(1)

240. At the sea 214(1)

241. Work and artist 214(1)

242. Suum cuique 214(1)

243. Origin of "good" and "bad" 214(1)

244. Thoughts and words 215(1)

245. Praise by choice 215(1)

246. Mathematics 215(1)

247. Habit 215(1)

248. Books 215(1)

249. The sigh of the search for knowledge 215(1)

250. Guilt 216(1)

251. Misunderstood sufferers 216(1)

252. Better a debtor 216(1)

253. Always at home 216(1)

254. Against embarrassment 216(1)

255. Imitators 216(1)

256. Skin-coveredness 217(1)

257. From experience 217(1)

258. The denial of chance 217(1)

259. From paradise 218(1)

260. Multiplication table 218(1)

261. Originality 218(1)

262. Sub specie aeterni 218(1)

263. Without vanity 218(1)

264. What we do 219(1)

265. Ultimate skepsis 219(1)

266. Where cruelty is needed 219(1)

267. With a great goal 219(1)

268. What makes one heroic? 219(1)

269. In what do you believe? 219(1)

270. What does your conscience say? 219(1)

271. Where are your greatest dangers? 220(1)

272. What do you love in others? 220(1)

273. Whom do you call bad? 220(1)

274. What do you consider most humane? 220(1)

275. What is the seal of liberation? 220(1)
BOOK FOUR: Sanctus Januarius 221(56)

276. For the new year 223(1)

277. Personal providence 223(1)

278. The thought of death 224(1)

279. Star friendship 225(1)

280. Architecture for the search for knowledge 226(1)

281. Knowing how to end 227(1)

282. Gait 227(1)

283. Preparatory human beings 228(1)

284. Faith in oneself 229(1)

285. Excelsior 229(1)

286. Interruption 230(1)

287. Delight in blindness 230(1)

288. Elevated moods 231(1)

289. Embark! 231(1)

290. One thing is needful 232(1)

291. Genoa 233(1)

292. To those who preach morals 234(1)

293. Our air 235(1)

294. Against the slanderers of nature 236(1)

295. Brief habits 236(2)

296. A firm reputation 238(1)

297. The ability to contradict 239(1)

298. Sigh 239(1)

299. What one should learn from artists 239(1)

300. Preludes of science 240(1)

301. The fancy of the contemplatives 241(1)

302. The danger of the happiest 242(1)

303. Two who are happy 243(1)

304. By doing we forego 244(1)

305. Self-control 244(1)

306. Stoics and Epicureans 245(1)

307. In favor of criticism 245(1)

308. The history of every day 246(1)

309. From the seventh solitude 246(1)

310. Will and wave 247(2)

311. Refracted light 249(1)

312. My dog 249(1)

313. No image of torture 250(1)

314. New domestic animals 250(1)

315. On the last hour 250(1)

316. Prophetic human beings 251(1)

317. Looking back 252(1)

318. Wisdom in pain 252(1)

319. As interpreters of our experiences 253(1)

320. Upon seeing each other again 254(1)

321. New caution 254(1)

322. Parable 254(1)

323. Good luck in fate 255(1)

324. In media vita 255(1)

325. What belongs to greatness 255(1)

326. The physicians of the soul and pain 256(1)

327. Taking seriously 257(1)

328. To harm stupidity 258(1)

329. Leisure and idleness 258(2)

330. Applause 260(1)

331. Better deaf than deafened 260(1)

332. The evil hour 261(1)

333. The meaning of knowing 261(1)

334. One must learn to love 262(1)

335. Long live physics! 263(4)

336. Nature's stinginess 267(1)

337. The "humaneness" of the future 267(2)

338. The will to suffer and those who feel pity 269(2)

339. Vita femina 271(1)

340. The dying Socrates 272(1)

341. The greatest weight 273(1)

342. Incipit tragoedia 274(3)
BOOK FIVE: We Fearless Ones 277(72)

343. The meaning of our cheerfulness 279(1)

344. How we, too, are still pious 280(3)

345. Morality as a problem 283(2)

346. Our question mark 285(2)

347. Believers and their need to believe 287(3)

348. On the origin of scholars 290(1)

349. Once more the origin of scholars 291(1)

350. In honor of the homines religiosi 292(1)

351. In honor of the priestly type 293(2)

352. How morality is scarcely dispensable 295(1)

353. On the origin of religions 296(1)

354. On the "genius of the species" 297(3)

355. The origin of our concept of "knowledge" 300(2)

356. How things will become ever more "artistic" in Europe 302(2)

357. On the old problem: "What is German?" 304(6)

358. The peasant rebellion of the spirit 310(4)

359. The revenge against the spirit and other ulterior motives of morality 314(1)

360. Two kinds of causes that are often confounded 315(1)

361. On the problem of the actor 316(2)

362. Our faith that Europe will become more virile 318(1)

363. How each sex has its own prejudice about love 318(2)

364. The hermit speaks 320(1)

365. The hermit speaks once more 321(1)

366. Faced with a scholarly book 322(2)

367. The first distinction to be made regarding works of art 324(1)

368. The cynic speaks 324(2)

369. Our side by side 326(1)

370. What is romanticism? 327(4)

371. We incomprehensible ones 331(1)

372. Why we are no idealists 332(2)

373. "Science" as a prejudice 334(2)

374. Our new "infinite" 336(1)

375. Why we look like Epicureans 337(1)

376. Our slow periods 337(1)

377. We who are homeless 338(2)

378. "And become bright again" 340(1)

379. The fool interrupts 341(1)

380. "The wanderer" speaks 342(1)

381. On the question of being understandable 343(3)

382. The great health 346(1)

383. Epilogue 347(2)
Appendix: Songs of Prince Vogelfrei 349(27)
To Goethe 351(1)
The Poet's Call 351(4)
In the South 355(2)
Pious Beppa 357(2)
The Mysterious Bark 359(1)
Declaration of Love 359(2)
Song of a Theocritical Goat-herd 361(2)
"Souls that are unsure" 363(1)
Fool in Despair 363(2)
Rimus remedium 365(4)
"My Happiness!" 369(2)
Toward New Seas 371(1)
Sils Maria 371(2)
To the Mistral 373(3)
Acknowledgments 376(1)
Index 377