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Tables of Contents for The Gay Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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