Preface and Prelude in Rhymes Preface and Prelude in Rhymes First Book 1. The Teachers of the purpose of Existence.      2. The Intellectual Conscience      3. Noble and common      4. That which Preserves the Species      5. Unconditional Duties      6. Loss of Dignity      7. Something for the Industrious      8. Unconscious Virtues      9. Our Eruptions      10. A kind of Atavism      11. Consciousness      12. The Goal of Science      13. The Theory of the Sense of Power      14. What is called Love      15. Out of the Distance      16. Over the footbridge      17. Motivation for Poverty      18. Ancient Pride      19. Evil      20. Dignity of Folly      21. To the Teachers of Unselfishness      22. Present is still pleased to repose      23. The Characteristics of Corruption      24. Diverse Dissatisfactions      25. Not Predestined for Knowledge      26. What is Life?      27. The Man of Renunciation      28. To be harmful with what is best in us      29. Adventitious Liars      30. The Comedy of Celebrities      31. Commerce and Nobility      32. Undesirable Disciples      33. Outside the Lecture hall      34. Historia abscondita      35. Heresy and Witchcraft      36. Last Words      37. Owing to three Errors      38. Explosive People      39. Altered Taste      40. The Lack of a noble manners      41. Against Remorse      42. Work and boredom      43. What Laws reveal      44. Supposed Motives      45. Epicurus      46. Our Astonishment      47. The Suppression of the Passions      48. Knowledge of Distress      49. Magnanimity and related matters      50. The Argument of Isolation      51. Sense for Truth      52. What others Know of us      53. Where Goodness Begins      54. The Consciousness of Appearance      55. The Ultimate Nobility of Character      56. The Desire for Suffering      Second Book 57. To the Realists      58. Only as Creators!      59. We Artists!      60. Women and their Effect in the Distance      61. In Honour of Friendship      62. Love      63. Woman in Music      64. Sceptics      65. Devotedness      66. The Strength of the Weak      67. Self dissembling      68. Will and Willingness      69. Capacity for Revenge      70. The Mistresses of the Masters      71. On Female Chastity      72. Mothers      73. Saintly Cruelty      74. The Unsuccessful      75. The Third Sex      76. The greatest Danger      77. The Animal with a good Conscience      78. What we should be Grateful for      79. The Charm of Imperfection      80. Art and Nature      81. Grecian taste      82. Esprit as un-Grecian      83. Translations      84. The Origin of Poetry      85. The Good and the Beautiful      86. The Theatre      87. The Conceit of Artists      88. Earnestness for the Truth      89. Now and Formerly      90. Lights and Shades      91. Precaution      92. Prose and Poetry      93. But why, then, do you Write?      94. Growth after Death      95. Chamfort      96. Two Orators      97. The Loquacity of Authors      98. In Honour of Shakespeare      99. The Followers of Schopenhauer      100. Learning to do Homage      101. Voltaire      102. A Word for Philologists      103. German Music      104. The Tone of the German Language      105. The Germans as Artists      106. Music as Advocate      107. Our Ultimate Gratitude to Art      Third Book 108. New Struggles 109. Let us be on our Guard 110. Origin of Knowledge 111. Origin of the Logical 112. Cause and Effect 113. The Theory of Poisons 114. The Extent of the Moral 115. The Four Errors 116. Herd Instinct 117. The Herd’s Sting of Conscience 118. Benevolence 119. No Altruism! 120. Health of the Soul 121. Life no Argument 122. The Element of Moral Scepticism in Christianity 123. Knowledge, more than a Means 124. In the Horizon of the Infinite 125. The Madman 126. Mystical Explanations 127. After effect of the most Ancient Religiousness 128. The Value of Prayer 129. The Conditions for God 130. A Dangerous Resolution 131. Christianity and Suicide 132. Against Christianity 133. Axioms 134. Pessimists as Victims 135. Origin of Sin 136. The Chosen People 137. Spoken in Parable 138. The Error of Christ. 139. Colour of the Passions 140. Too Jewish 141. Too Oriental 142. Frankincense 143. The Greatest advantage of Polytheism. 144. Religious Wars 145. Danger for vegetarians 146. German Hopes 147. Question and Answer 148. Where Reformations Originate 149. The Failure of Reformations 150. Criticism of Saints 151. The Origin of Religion 152. The greatest Change 153. Homo poeta 154. Differences in the Dangerousness of Life 155. What we Lack 156. The most Influential Person 157. Mentiri 158. An Inconvenient Peculiarity 159. Every Virtue has its Time 160. In Intercourse with Virtues 161. To the Admirers of the Age 162. Egoism 153. After a Great Victory 164. Those who Seek Repose 165. The Happiness of Renunciation 166. Always in our own Society 167. Misanthropy and Philanthropy 168. Concerning a sick Man 169. Open Enemies 170. With the crowd 171. Fame. 172. The Perverter of Taste 173. To be Profound and to Appear Profound 174. Apart 175. Concerning Eloquence 176. Compassion 177. On "Educational Matters" 178. For Moral Enlightenment 179. Thoughts 180. The Good Time for Free Spirits 181. Following and Leading 182. In Solitude 183. The Music of the Best Future 184. Justice 185. Poor 186. Bad Conscience 187. Offensiveness in Expression 188. Work 189. The Thinker 190. Against Eulogisers 191. Against many a defense 192. The Good-natured 193. Kants Joke 194. The "Open-hearted" Man 195. Laughable! 196. The Limits of our Sense of Hearing 197. Be warned! 198. Annoyance of the Proud Man 199. Liberality 200. Laughing 201. Applause 202. A Squanderer 203. Hic niger est 204. Beggars and Courtesy 205. Need 206. During the Rain 207. The Envious Man 208. A Great Man! 209. The Manner of Asking for Reasons 210. Moderation in Industriouness. 211. Secret Enemies 212. Not to be Deceived 213. The Way to Happiness 214. Faith makes Blessed 215. The Ideal and the Material 216. Danger in the Voice 217. Cause and Effect 218. My Antipathy 219. The Object of Punishment 220. Sacrifice 221. Consideration 222. Poet and Liar 223. Vicariousness of the Senses 224. Animal Criticism 225. The Natural 226. The Distrustful and their Style 227. Fallacy, Fallacy 228. Against Mediators 229. Obstinacy and Loyalty 230. Lack of Reserve 231. The "Thorough" 232. Dreaming 233. The most Dangerous Point of View 234. Consolatory Words of a Musician 235. Spirit and Character 236. To Move the Multitude 237. The Polite Man 238. Without Envy 239. The Joyless Person 240. On the Sea Shore 241. Work and Artist 242. Suum cuique 243. Origin of "Good" and "Bad 244. Thoughts and Words 245. Praise in Choice 246. Mathematics 247. Habits 248. Books 249. The Sigh of the Seeker of Knowledge 250. Guilt 251. Misunderstood Sufferers 252. Better to be in Debt 253. Always at Home 254. Against Embarrassment 255. Imitators 256. Skinniness 257. From Experience 258. The Deniers of Chance 259. From Paradise 260. One times One 261. Originality 262. Sub specie aeterni 263. Without Vanity 264. What we Do 265. Ultimate Scepticism 266. Where Cruelty is Necessary 267. With a great Goal 268. What makes Heroic? 269. What do you Believe in? 270. What said your Conscience? 271. Where are your Greatest Dangers? 272. What do you Love in others? 273. Whom do you call Bad? 274. What do you think most humane? 275. What is the Seal of Attained Liberty? Fourth Book 275. Sanctus Januarius      276. For the New Year      277. Personal Providence      278. The Thought of Death      279. Stellar Friendship      280. Architecture for the search for knowledge      281. Knowing how to End      282. Gait      283. Pioneers      284. Belief in Oneself      285. Excelsior!      286. A Digression      287. Love of Blindness      288. Lofty Moods      289. Aboard Ship!      290. One Thing is Needful      291. Genoa      292. The Preachers of Morality      293. Our Air      294. Against the Slanderers of Nature      295. Short lived Habits      296. A Fixed Reputation      297. Ability to Contradict      298. A Sigh      299. What one should Learn from Artists      300. Prelude to Science      301. Illusion of the Contemplative.      302. The Danger of the Happiest Ones      303. Two Happy Ones      304. In Doing we Leave Undone      305. Self control      306. Stoic and Epicurean      307. In Favour of Criticism      308. The History of each Day      309. Out of the Seventh Solitude      310. Will and Wave      311. Refracted Light      312. My Dog      313. No Picture of a Martyr      314. New Domestic Animals      315. The Last Hour      316. Prophetic Men      317. Looking Back      318. Wisdom in Pain      319. As Interpreters of our Experiences.      320. On Meeting Again.      321. A New Precaution.      322. A Simile      323. Happiness in Destiny      324. In Media Vita      325. What Belongs to Greatness      326. Physicians of the Soul and Pain      327. Taking Things Seriously      328. Doing Harm to Stupidity      329. Leisure and Idleness      330. Applause      331. Better Deaf than Deafened      332. The Evil Hour      333. What does Knowing Mean?      334. One must Learn to Love      335. Long Live Physics!      336. Avarice of Nature      337. Future "Humanity"      338. The Will to Suffering and the Compassionate      339. Vita femina      340. The Dying Socrates      341. The Heaviest Burden      342. Incipit Tragcedia      Fifth Book 343. What our Cheerfulness Signifies      344. To what Extent even We are still Pious      345. Morality as a Problem      346. Our Note of Interrogation      347. Believers and their Need of Belief      348. The Origin of the Learned      349. The Origin of the Learned once more      350. In Honour of Homines Religiosi      351. In Honour of Priestly Natures      352. Why we can hardly Dispense with Morality      353. The Origin of Religions      354. The Genius of the Species?      355. The Origin of our Concept of "Knowledge"      356. How things will become ever more “artistic” in Europe      357. On the old Problem: “What is German?”      358. The Peasant Revolt of the Spirit      359. Vengeance on Intellect and other Backgrounds of Morality      360. Two Kinds of Causes which are Confounded      361. The Problem of the Actor      362. Our faith that Europe will become more virile      363. How each Sex has its Prejudice about Love      364. The Anchorite Speaks      365. The Anchorite Speaks once more      366. At the Sight of a Learned Book      367. How one has to Distinguish first of all in Works of Art.      368. The Cynic Speaks.      369. Juxtapositions in us      370. What is Romanticism?      371. We Unintelligible Ones      372. Why we are not Idealists      373. Science as a prejudice      374. Our new "Infinite"      375. Why we Seem to be Epicureans      376. Our Slow Periods      377. We Homeless Ones      378. "And become bright again”      379. The Foot’s Interruption      380. "The Wanderer" Speaks      381. The Question of being understandable      382. Great Healthiness      383. Epilogue