This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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18188 | For who would wage war with the gods: who, even with the one god? |
18188 | And then we meet with the weighty question: What lies before this period? |
18188 | Apropos, ca n''t you get me a silhouette of him?" |
18188 | Are there characteristic differences between the utterances of the_ man of genius_ and the_ poetical soul of the people_? |
18188 | Has Homer''s personality, because it can not be grasped, gradually faded away into an empty name? |
18188 | Let us hear how a learned man of the first rank writes about Homer even so late as 1783:"Where does the good man live? |
18188 | Or had all the Homeric poems been gathered together in a body, the nation naively representing itself by the figure of Homer? |
18188 | What was left of Homer''s own individual work? |
18188 | What was meant by"Homer"at that time? |
18188 | Who was Homer previously to Wolf''s brilliant investigations? |
18188 | Why did he remain so long incognito? |
19322 | Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? 19322 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? |
19322 | Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 19322 --Has any one ever clearly understood the celebrated story at the beginning of the Bible-- of God''s mortal terror of_ science_?... 19322 --In the last analysis it comes to this: what is the_ end_ of lying? 19322 --Must I add that, in the whole New Testament, there appears but a_ solitary_ figure worthy of honour? 19322 --_What follows, then?_ That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. 19322 And a dogma ofimmaculate conception"for good measure?... |
19322 | And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more_ than others_? |
19322 | And when one goeth through fire for his teaching-- what doth that prove? |
19322 | But the"will of God"had already been revealed to Moses.... What happened? |
19322 | But what actually happened? |
19322 | Can it be that this fact is not yet understood? |
19322 | Did n''t Kant see in the French Revolution the transformation of the state from the inorganic form to the_ organic_? |
19322 | Even to this day the crude fact of persecution is enough to give an honourable name to the most empty sort of sectarianism.--But why? |
19322 | How can any one call pious legends"traditions"? |
19322 | How is one to_ protect_ one''s self against science? |
19322 | Is all this properly understood? |
19322 | Is it understood at last,_ will_ it ever be understood,_ what_ the Renaissance was? |
19322 | It compares itself to the prophets...."Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and_ that_ the spirit of God dwelleth in you? |
19322 | It was through woman that man learned to taste of the tree of knowledge.--What happened? |
19322 | One Jew more or less-- what did it matter?... |
19322 | Only then did the chasm of doubt yawn:"_ Who_ put him to death? |
19322 | So little is this true that it is almost a proof against truth when sensations of pleasure influence the answer to the question"What is true?" |
19322 | So to live that life no longer has any meaning:_ this_ is now the"meaning"of life.... Why be public- spirited? |
19322 | This_ frightful impostor_ then proceeds:"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? |
19322 | To what end the Greeks? |
19322 | What actual difference does it make to a civilized man, when there is a steel strike, whether the workmen win or the mill- owners win? |
19322 | What do I care for the contradictions of"tradition"? |
19322 | What follows therefrom? |
19322 | What is the meaning of a"moral order of the world"? |
19322 | Whom do I hate most heartily among the rabbles of today? |
19322 | Whom, then, does Christianity deny? |
19322 | Why labour together, trust one another, or concern one''s self about the common welfare, and try to serve it?... |
19322 | Why take any pride in descent and forefathers? |
19322 | Would God have done anything superfluous? |
19322 | [ 21] What does he do? |
19322 | _ What_ is Jewish,_ what_ is Christian morality? |
19322 | _ What_ was the only part of Christianity that Mohammed borrowed later on? |
19322 | _ what_ does it call"the world"? |
19322 | and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?" |
19322 | do not even the publicans so?" |
19322 | do not even the publicans the same? |
19322 | how much more things that pertain to this life?"... |
19322 | must a German first be a genius, a free spirit, before he can feel_ decently_? |
19322 | what was it_?" |
19322 | who had perhaps never experienced the rapturous_ ardeurs_ of victory and of destruction? |
19322 | who was his natural enemy?" |
38145 | Can we not upset every standard? 38145 113= Christianity as Antiquity.=--When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ringing, we ask ourselves: Is it possible? 38145 34= For Tranquility.=--But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? 38145 54= Falsehood.=--Why do men, as a rule, speak the truth in the ordinary affairs of life? 38145 70= Execution.=--How comes it that every execution causes us more pain than a murder? 38145 A question seems to weigh upon our tongue and yet will not put itself into words: whether one_ can_ knowingly remain in the domain of the untruthful? 38145 All this for a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was God''s son? 38145 And if we are dupes are we not on that very account dupers also? 38145 Are these moral deeds miracles because they are, in Schopenhauer''s phraseimpossible and yet accomplished"? |
38145 | As the brain inquires: whence these impressions of light and color? |
38145 | Besides, what is the burning alive of one individual compared with eternal hell pains for everybody else? |
38145 | But how can these motives be distinguished from the desire for truth? |
38145 | But is there any sort of intentional injury in which our existence and the maintenance of our well being be not involved? |
38145 | But the general universal sciences, considered as a great, basic unity, posit the question-- truly a very living question--: to what purpose? |
38145 | But where are there psychologists to- day? |
38145 | But who bothers his head about the theologians any more-- except the theologians themselves? |
38145 | But who is capable of it? |
38145 | But why is the richest and most harmless source of entertainment thus allowed to run to waste? |
38145 | Does a huge boulder lie in a lonely moor? |
38145 | Does a man ever fully know how much pain an act may cause another? |
38145 | Everything is merely-- human-- all too human? |
38145 | For whom, moreover, does there exist, at present, any strong tie? |
38145 | Have enough of the unpleasant effects of this art been experienced to justify the person striving for culture in turning his regard away from it? |
38145 | He is in amaze and sits hushed: for where had he been? |
38145 | How can influence be exercised over this fearful unknown, how can this domain of freedom be brought under subjection? |
38145 | How comes this? |
38145 | If once he hardly dared to ask"why so apart? |
38145 | If this feeling had not been rendered agreeable to man-- why should he have improvised such an ideal and clung to it so long? |
38145 | Is everything, in the last resort, false? |
38145 | Is malicious joy devilish, as Schopenhauer says? |
38145 | Is one to believe that such things can still be believed? |
38145 | Is there such a thing as injuring from absolute badness, for example, in the case of cruelty? |
38145 | Is there, then, anything immoral in feeling pleasure in the pain of others? |
38145 | Mankind loves to put by the questions of its origin and beginning: must one not be almost inhuman in order to follow the opposite course? |
38145 | The question thus becomes: what sort of a notion will human society, under the influence of such a state of mind, form of itself? |
38145 | To move, to inspire, to inspirit at any cost-- is not this the freedom cry of an exhausted, over- ripe, over cultivated age? |
38145 | What binds strongest? |
38145 | What cords seem almost unbreakable? |
38145 | What!? |
38145 | Whence comes the conviction that one should not cause pain in others in order to feel pleasure oneself? |
38145 | Who dare reproach the Genoese Calvin for burning the physician Servetus at the stake? |
38145 | Who now feels any great impulse to establish himself and his posterity in a particular place? |
38145 | Who so well as he appreciates the fact that there comes balmy weather even in winter, who delights more in the sunshine athwart the wall? |
38145 | Who would have the right to feel sad if made aware of the goal to which those paths lead? |
38145 | Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? |
38145 | Would many feel disposed to continue such investigations? |
38145 | _ must_ we not be dupers also?" |
38145 | and God only an invention and a subtlety of the devil? |
38145 | and is good perhaps evil? |
38145 | is it so extraordinary a thing? |
38145 | or, if one_ must_, whether, then, death would not be preferable? |
38145 | over what? |
38145 | over whom? |
38145 | renouncing all I loved? |
38145 | renouncing respect itself? |
38145 | so alone? |
38145 | that he thus analyses his being and sacrifices one part of it to another part? |
38145 | what is the use? |
38145 | why does the first plausible hypothesis of the cause of a sensation gain credit in the dreaming state? |
38145 | why this coldness, this suspicion, this hate for one''s very virtues?" |
38226 | Are these human beings,one might ask,"or only machines for thinking, writing and speaking?" |
38226 | Is the highest thing of all, the production of the philosophical genius, nothing but a pretext, and the main object perhaps to hinder his production? 38226 See, that is the true and real art,"we seem to hear:"of what use are these aspiring little people of to- day?" |
38226 | A poor obstacle, is n''t it? |
38226 | Ah, and why nothing better? |
38226 | And in the gradual clearing of the forests, might not our libraries be very reasonably used for straw and brushwood? |
38226 | And is Reason turned to Unreason?" |
38226 | And now he could turn a fearless eye towards the question,"What is the real worth of life?" |
38226 | And shall we not call it unselfishness, when the historical man lets himself be turned into an"objective"mirror of all that is? |
38226 | And then, why a philosopher? |
38226 | And what are they called? |
38226 | And what obstacles must be removed before his example can have its full effect and the philosopher train another philosopher? |
38226 | And why especially a Greek? |
38226 | And, after all, what does the history of philosophy matter to our young men? |
38226 | Are they to learn to hate or perhaps despise philosophy? |
38226 | But granted that this herd of bad philosophers is ridiculous-- and who will deny it?--how far are they also harmful? |
38226 | But how can we"find ourselves"again, and how can man"know himself"? |
38226 | But is not this really an intentional confusion of quantity and quality? |
38226 | But to what means can he look? |
38226 | But what comes from these congregated storm- clouds? |
38226 | But what is it that forces the man to fear his neighbour, to think and act with his herd, and not seek his own joy? |
38226 | But what is one to think of the innocent statement, wavering between tautology and nonsense, of a famous historical virtuoso? |
38226 | But whither does he point? |
38226 | But who are the men that can use history rightly, and for whom it is a help and not a hindrance to life? |
38226 | But who will give them this life? |
38226 | But, we may ask, should one who has a decided talent for working in gold be made for that reason to learn music? |
38226 | By what"work"are they to strive boldly forward? |
38226 | Can Nature be said to attain her end, if men have a false idea of the aim of their own labour?" |
38226 | Can a University philosopher ever keep clearly before him the whole round of these duties and limitations? |
38226 | Consider the historical virtuoso of the present time: is he the justest man of his age? |
38226 | Could the great German parodist contradict this? |
38226 | Do not all the virtues follow in the train of the new faith? |
38226 | Does not the increasing demand for historical judgment give us that idea in a new dress? |
38226 | For he must go down into the depths of being, with a string of curious questions on his lips--"Why am I alive? |
38226 | For the problem is--"In what way may your life, the individual life, retain the highest value and the deepest significance? |
38226 | For what does the rogue mean by this cry to the workers in the vineyard? |
38226 | For what means has nature of repressing too great a luxuriance from without? |
38226 | For what medicine would be more salutary to combat the excess of historical culture than Hartmann''s parody of the world''s history? |
38226 | For what opposition is there between human action and the process of the world? |
38226 | For where are our modern physicians who are strong and sure- footed enough to hold up another or lead him by the hand? |
38226 | He asks himself in amazement--"Is not such knowledge, after all, absolutely necessary? |
38226 | He knows this, but hides it like an evil conscience;--and why? |
38226 | He may ask the beast--"Why do you look at me and not speak to me of your happiness?" |
38226 | Heirs of the Greeks and Romans, of Christianity? |
38226 | How can we reach that end? |
38226 | How could statistics prove that there are laws in history? |
38226 | How could the next ten years teach what the past ten were not able to teach? |
38226 | How does the philosopher of our time regard culture? |
38226 | How is he to attain such a strange end? |
38226 | How shall he answer? |
38226 | How should a political innovation manage once and for all to make a contented race of the dwellers on this earth? |
38226 | How should the endless rush of events not bring satiety, surfeit, loathing? |
38226 | How was Schopenhauer to escape this danger? |
38226 | Is it enough for thee? |
38226 | Is it not justice, always to hold the balance of forces in your hands and observe which is the stronger and heavier? |
38226 | Is it not magnanimity to renounce all power in heaven and earth in order to adore the mere fact of power? |
38226 | Is it true that this objectivity has its source in a heightened sense of the need for justice? |
38226 | Is not such thinking in its nature emasculate? |
38226 | Is not the past large enough to let you find some place where you may disport yourself without becoming ridiculous? |
38226 | Is perhaps our time such a"first- comer"? |
38226 | Is the guilt ours who see it, or have life and history really altered their conjunction and an inauspicious star risen between them? |
38226 | It can not be the so- called"impulse to truth": for how could there be an impulse towards a pure, cold and objectless knowledge? |
38226 | Laws? |
38226 | Might not an illusion lurk in the highest interpretation of the word objectivity? |
38226 | Must life dominate knowledge, or knowledge life? |
38226 | Now why will he so strongly choose the opposite, and try to feel life, which is the same as to suffer from life? |
38226 | O thou too proud European of the nineteenth century, art thou not mad? |
38226 | One said of the natural sciences,--"Not one of them can fully explain to me the origin of matter; then what do I care about them all?" |
38226 | Or will a race of eunuchs prove to be necessary to guard the historical harem of the world? |
38226 | Or will they be exceptions, the last inheritors of the qualities that were once called German? |
38226 | Religions are at their last gasp? |
38226 | That is something; there is yet hope, and do not ye who hope laugh in your hearts? |
38226 | The guests that come last to the table should rightly take the last places: and will you take the first? |
38226 | The question is always on my tongue, why precisely Democritus? |
38226 | The revolution, the atomistic revolution, is inevitable: but what_ are_ those smallest indivisible elements of human society? |
38226 | Then I said within me:"What would be the principles, on which he might teach thee?" |
38226 | There are no more living mythologies, you say? |
38226 | To the question"To what end dost thou live?" |
38226 | We can not gain even this transitory moment of awakening by our own strength; we must be lifted up-- and who are they that will uplift us? |
38226 | What deeds could man ever have done if he had not been enveloped in the dust- cloud of the unhistorical? |
38226 | What if this cry were the ultimate object of the state, and the"education"or leading to philosophy were merely a leading_ from_ philosophy? |
38226 | What is it that is always troubling us? |
38226 | What is the use to the modern man of this"monumental"contemplation of the past, this preoccupation with the rare and classic? |
38226 | What remains to him now but his knowledge? |
38226 | What significance has any particular form of culture for these several travellers? |
38226 | What then? |
38226 | What, further, must be discovered that may make his influence on his contemporaries more certain? |
38226 | Where has vanished all the reflection on moral questions that has occupied every great developed society at all epochs?" |
38226 | Which of the two is the higher, and decisive power? |
38226 | Who compels you to judge? |
38226 | Who was it that spake that true word--''A man has never risen higher than when he knoweth not whither his road may yet lead him''?" |
38226 | Who were physician enough to know the health or sickness of our time? |
38226 | Who would ever dream of any"monumental history"among them, the hard torch- race that alone gives life to greatness? |
38226 | Why cling to your bit of earth, or your little business, or listen to what your neighbour says? |
38226 | Why not Heraclitus, or Philo, or Bacon, or Descartes? |
38226 | Why not a poet or orator? |
38226 | Why not an Englishman or a Turk? |
38226 | Why should the Germans of to- day be particularly subtle? |
38226 | Will it soon become notorious? |
38226 | Wilt thou be its advocate and its redeemer? |
38226 | Would it be possible, I wonder, to represent our present literary and national heroes, officials and politicians as Romans? |
38226 | Would you rather the state persecuted philosophers than paid them for official services?" |
38226 | Yes, when will men feel again deeply as Kleist did, and learn to measure a philosophy by what it means to the"Holy of Holies"? |
38226 | You may deny this youth any culture-- but how would youth count that a reproach? |
38226 | and how may it least be squandered?" |
38226 | how have I become what I am, and why do I suffer in this existence?" |
38226 | unto this existence? |
38226 | what is the gnat that will not let us sleep? |
38226 | what lesson have I to learn from life? |
38226 | who goes there?" |
51710 | But what do I see? 51710 This is a defect,"he cries,"but can you believe that it may also appear as an advantage?" |
51710 | Where are my natural allies, with whom I may struggle against the ever waxing and ever more oppressive pretensions of modern erudition? |
51710 | Where are they who are suffering under the yoke of modern institutions? |
51710 | --but over whom? |
51710 | A seeming dance of joy enjoined upon a sufferer? |
51710 | Airs of overbearing pride assumed by one who is sick to the backbone? |
51710 | Am I therefore to keep silence? |
51710 | An accident? |
51710 | And are n''t you accustomed to criticism on the part of German philosophers? |
51710 | And how would it console a workman who chanced to get one of his limbs caught in the mechanism to know that this oil was trickling over him? |
51710 | And is it your own sweet wish, Great Master, to found the religion of the future? |
51710 | And now ask yourselves, ye generation of to- day, Was all this composed_ for you_? |
51710 | And will not the Meistersingers continue to acquaint men, even in the remotest ages to come, with the nature of Germany''s soul? |
51710 | And, thirdly, how does he write his books? |
51710 | And, viewed in this light, how does Strauss''s claim to originality appear? |
51710 | Answer us here, then, at least: whence, whither, wherefore all science, if it do not lead to culture? |
51710 | Are we still Christians? |
51710 | At this stage we bring the other side of Wagner''s nature into view: but how shall we describe this other side? |
51710 | Belike to barbarity? |
51710 | But for whose benefit is this entertainment given? |
51710 | But the question,"Are we still Christians?" |
51710 | But what is the oil called which trickles down upon the hammers and stampers? |
51710 | But what were his feelings withal? |
51710 | But where does this imperative hail from? |
51710 | But whoever can this Sweetmeat- Beethoven of Strauss''s be? |
51710 | But why not, Great Master? |
51710 | But would anybody believe that it might equally be a sign of something wanting? |
51710 | But, in any case, would not complete annihilation be better than the wretched existing state of affairs? |
51710 | Dare ye mention Schiller''s name without blushing? |
51710 | Did Nietzsche, perchance, spare the Germans? |
51710 | Do you, Master Metaphysician, perhaps intend to instruct the social democrats in the art of getting kicks? |
51710 | Does it not seem almost like a fairy tale, to be able to come face to face with such a personality? |
51710 | For are we not in the heaven of heavens? |
51710 | For do we not all supply each other''s deficiencies? |
51710 | For_ it_ no one has time-- and yet for what shall science have time if not for culture? |
51710 | Granted; but what if the carters should begin building? |
51710 | Had he such a purpose, such an ideal, such a direction? |
51710 | Had not even Goethe, in his time, once grown tired of attending the rehearsals of his Iphigenia? |
51710 | Has not a haven been found for all wanderers on high and desert seas, and has not peace settled over the face of the waters? |
51710 | Have we still a religion? |
51710 | Hence, if it be intended to regard German erudition as a thing apart, in what sense can German culture be said to have conquered? |
51710 | How are they resuscitated? |
51710 | How can I still bear it?" |
51710 | How can we protect this homeless art through the ages until that remote future is reached? |
51710 | How can ye, my worthy Philistines, think of Lessing without shame? |
51710 | How could it have been possible for a type like that of the Culture- Philistine to develop? |
51710 | How is it possible for any one to remain faithful here, to be completely steadfast? |
51710 | How is this possible? |
51710 | If now the strains of our German masters''music burst upon a mass of mankind sick to this extent, what is really the meaning of these strains? |
51710 | In sooth, Great Master, why have you written such fusty little chapters? |
51710 | In this, we have the answer to our first question: How does the believer in the new faith picture his heaven? |
51710 | In what other artist do we meet with the like of this, in the same proportion? |
51710 | In what work of art, of any kind, has the body and soul of the Middle Ages ever been so thoroughly depicted as in Lohengrin? |
51710 | Influence-- the greatest amount of influence-- how? |
51710 | Is it a shadow? |
51710 | Is it reality? |
51710 | Is this a sign that Strauss has never ceased to be a Christian theologian, and that he has therefore never learned to be a philosopher? |
51710 | It can not matter so very much, therefore, even if one do give oneself away; for what could not the purple mantle of triumph conceal? |
51710 | Let us imagine some one''s falling asleep while reading these chapters-- what would he most probably dream about? |
51710 | Let us regard this as_ one_ of Wagner''s answers to the question, What does music mean in our time? |
51710 | Now, however, our second question must be answered: How far does the courage lent to its adherents by this new faith extend? |
51710 | Now, in this world of forms and intentional misunderstandings, what purpose is served by the appearance of souls overflowing with music? |
51710 | Now, to whom does this captain of Philistines address these words? |
51710 | Or is"new belief"merely an ironical concession to ordinary parlance? |
51710 | Really? |
51710 | Scaliger used to say:"What does it matter to us whether Montaigne drank red or white wine?" |
51710 | Secondly, how far does the courage lent him by the new faith extend? |
51710 | See the flashing eyes that glance contemptuously over your heads, the deadly red cheek-- do these things mean nothing to you? |
51710 | Should one not answer: Music could not have been born in our time? |
51710 | Should real music make itself heard, because mankind of all creatures_ least deserves to hear it, though it perhaps need it most_? |
51710 | So the asceticism and self- denial of the ancient anchorite and saint was merely a form of_ Katzenjammer_? |
51710 | Surely their object is not the earning of bread or the acquiring of posts of honour? |
51710 | This is Wagner''s second answer to the question, What is the meaning of music in our times? |
51710 | Thus his thoughts concentrated themselves upon the question, How do the people come into being? |
51710 | Was it possible that we were the victims of the same hallucination as that to which our friend had been subjected in his dream? |
51710 | We have our culture, say her sons; for have we not our"classics"? |
51710 | What can it matter to us whether or not the little chapters were freshly written? |
51710 | What does our Culture- Philistinism say of these seekers? |
51710 | What is our conception of the universe? |
51710 | What is our rule of life? |
51710 | What is so generally interesting in them? |
51710 | What merit should we then discover in the piety of those whom Strauss calls"We"? |
51710 | What part did myth and music play in modern society, wherever they had not been actually sacrificed to it? |
51710 | What power is sufficiently influential to deny this existence? |
51710 | What secret meaning had the word"fidelity"to his whole being? |
51710 | What then does its presence amongst us signify? |
51710 | What, for instance, must Alexander the Great have seen in that instant when he caused Asia and Europe to be drunk out of the same goblet? |
51710 | Whatever does he do it for? |
51710 | Where is that number of souls that I wish to see become a people, that ye may share the same joys and comforts with me? |
51710 | Where is the Strauss- Darwin morality here? |
51710 | Which of us can exist without the waters of purification? |
51710 | Which of us has not soiled his hands and heart in the disgusting idolatry of modern culture? |
51710 | Whither, above all, has the courage gone? |
51710 | Whither? |
51710 | Who among you would renounce power, knowing and having learned that power is evil? |
51710 | Who could now persist in doubting the existence of this incomparable skill? |
51710 | Who does not hear the voice which cries,"Be silent and cleansed"? |
51710 | Who, indeed, will enlighten us concerning this Sweetmeat- Beethoven, if not Strauss himself-- the only person who seems to know anything about him? |
51710 | Whoever would have desired to possess the confessions, say, of a Ranke or a Mommsen? |
51710 | Why are there no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no hearts to feel, no brains to understand? |
51710 | Why did this star seem to him the brightest and purest of all? |
51710 | Why is there no male audience in England willing to listen to a manly and daring philosophy? |
51710 | Why should one, without further ceremony, immediately think of Christianity at the sound of the words"old faith"? |
51710 | Why, pray, art thou there at all? |
51710 | Will they not do more than acquaint men of it? |
51710 | and Whence? |
51710 | and even granting its development, how was it able to rise to the powerful position of supreme judge concerning all questions of German culture? |
51710 | and of what order are his religious documents? |
51710 | and where are the Siegfrieds, among you? |
51710 | and where are the free and fearless, developing and blossoming in innocent egoism? |
51710 | if, for example, the Creator Himself had shared Lessing''s conviction of the superiority of struggle to tranquil possession?" |
5652 | But what do I see? 5652 This is a defect,"he cries,"but can you believe that it may also appear as an advantage?" |
5652 | Where are my natural allies, with whom I may struggle against the ever waxing and ever more oppressive pretensions of modern erudition? 5652 Where are they who are suffering under the yoke of modern institutions?" |
5652 | --but over whom? |
5652 | A defeat? |
5652 | A seeming dance of joy enjoined upon a sufferer? |
5652 | Airs of overbearing pride assumed by one who is sick to the backbone? |
5652 | Am I therefore to keep silence? |
5652 | An accident? |
5652 | And are n''t you accustomed to criticism on the part of German philosophers? |
5652 | And how would it console a workman who chanced to get one of his limbs caught in the mechanism to know that this oil was trickling over him? |
5652 | And is it your own sweet wish, Great Master, to found the religion of the future? |
5652 | And now ask yourselves, ye generation of to- day, Was all this composed for you? |
5652 | And will not the Meistersingers continue to acquaint men, even in the remotest ages to come, with the nature of Germany''s soul? |
5652 | And, thirdly, how does he write his books? |
5652 | And, viewed in this light, how does Strauss''s claim to originality appear? |
5652 | Answer us here, then, at least: whence, whither, wherefore all science, if it do not lead to culture? |
5652 | Are we still Christians? |
5652 | At this stage we bring the other side of Wagner''s nature into view: but how shall we describe this other side? |
5652 | Belike to barbarity? |
5652 | But for whose benefit is this entertainment given? |
5652 | But the question,"Are we still Christians?" |
5652 | But what is the oil called which trickles down upon the hammers and stampers? |
5652 | But what were his feelings withal? |
5652 | But where does this imperative hail from? |
5652 | But whoever can this Sweetmeat- Beethoven of Strauss''s be? |
5652 | But why not, Great Master? |
5652 | But would anybody believe that it might equally be a sign of something wanting? |
5652 | But, in any case, would not complete annihilation be better than the wretched existing state of affairs? |
5652 | Dare ye mention Schiller''s name without blushing? |
5652 | Did Nietzsche, perchance, spare the Germans? |
5652 | Do you, Master Metaphysician, perhaps intend to instruct the social democrats in the art of getting kicks? |
5652 | Does it not seem almost like a fairy tale, to be able to come face to face with such a personality? |
5652 | For are we not in the heaven of heavens? |
5652 | For do we not all supply each other''s deficiencies? |
5652 | For it no one has time-- and yet for what shall science have time if not for culture? |
5652 | Granted; but what if the carters should begin building? |
5652 | Had he such a purpose, such an ideal, such a direction? |
5652 | Had not even Goethe, m his time, once grown tired of attending the rehearsals of his Iphigenia? |
5652 | Has not a haven been found for all wanderers on high and desert seas, and has not peace settled over the face of the waters? |
5652 | Have we still a religion? |
5652 | Hence, if it be intended to regard German erudition as a thing apart, in what sense can German culture be said to have conquered? |
5652 | How are they resuscitated? |
5652 | How can I still bear it?" |
5652 | How can we protect this homeless art through the ages until that remote future is reached? |
5652 | How can ye, my worthy Philistines, think of Lessing without shame? |
5652 | How could it have been possible for a type like that of the Culture- Philistine to develop? |
5652 | How is it possible for any one to remain faithful here, to be completely steadfast? |
5652 | How is this possible? |
5652 | If now the strains of our German masters''music burst upon a mass of mankind sick to this extent, what is really the meaning of these strains? |
5652 | In sooth, Great Master, why have you written such fusty little chapters? |
5652 | In this, we have the answer to our first question: How does the believer in the new faith picture his heaven? |
5652 | In what other artist do we meet with the like of this, in the same proportion? |
5652 | In what work of art, of any kind, has the body and soul of the Middle Ages ever been so thoroughly depicted as in Lohengrin? |
5652 | Influence-- the greatest amount of influence-- how? |
5652 | Is it a shadow? |
5652 | Is it reality? |
5652 | Is this a sign that Strauss has never ceased to be a Christian theologian, and that he has therefore never learned to be a philosopher? |
5652 | It can not matter so very much, therefore, even if one do give oneself away; for what could not the purple mantle of triumph conceal? |
5652 | Let us imagine some one''s falling asleep while reading these chapters-- what would he most probably dream about? |
5652 | Let us regard this as one of Wagner''s answers to the question, What does music mean in our time? |
5652 | Now, however, our second question must be answered: How far does the courage lent to its adherents by this new faith extend? |
5652 | Now, in this world of forms and intentional misunderstandings, what purpose is served by the appearance of souls overflowing with music? |
5652 | Now, to whom does this captain of Philistines address these words? |
5652 | Or is"new belief"merely an ironical concession to ordinary parlance? |
5652 | Really? |
5652 | Scaliger used to say:"What does it matter to us whether Montaigne drank red or white wine?" |
5652 | Secondly, how far does the courage lent him by the new faith extend? |
5652 | See the flashing eyes that glance contemptuously over your heads, the deadly red cheek-- do these things mean nothing to you? |
5652 | Should one not answer: Music could not have been born in our time? |
5652 | Should real music make itself heard, because mankind of all creatures least deserves to hear it, though it perhaps need it most? |
5652 | So the asceticism and self- denial of the ancient anchorite and saint was merely a form of Katzenjammer? |
5652 | Surely their object is not the earning of bread or the acquiring of posts of honour? |
5652 | This is Wagner''s second answer to the question, What is the meaning of music in our times? |
5652 | Thus his thoughts concentrated themselves upon the question, How do the people come into being? |
5652 | Was it possible that we were the victims of the same hallucination as that to which our friend had been subjected in his dream? |
5652 | We have our culture, say her sons; for have we not our"classics"? |
5652 | What can it matter to us whether or not the little chapters were freshly written? |
5652 | What does our Culture- Philistinism say of these seekers? |
5652 | What is our conception of the universe? |
5652 | What is our rule of life? |
5652 | What is so generally interesting in them? |
5652 | What merit should we then discover in the piety of those whom Strauss calls"We"? |
5652 | What part did myth and music play in modern society, wherever they had not been actually sacrificed to it? |
5652 | What power is sufficiently influential to deny this existence? |
5652 | What secret meaning had the word"fidelity"to his whole being? |
5652 | What then does its presence amongst us signify? |
5652 | What, for instance, must Alexander the Great have seen in that instant when he caused Asia and Europe to be drunk out of the same goblet? |
5652 | Whatever does he do it for? |
5652 | Where is that number of souls that I wish to see become a people, that ye may share the same joys and comforts with me? |
5652 | Where is the Strauss- Darwin morality here? |
5652 | Which of us can exist without the waters of purification? |
5652 | Which of us has not soiled his hands and heart in the disgusting idolatry of modern culture? |
5652 | Whither, above all, has the courage gone? |
5652 | Whither? |
5652 | Who among you would renounce power, knowing and having learned that power is evil? |
5652 | Who could now persist in doubting the existence of this incomparable skill? |
5652 | Who does not hear the voice which cries,"Be silent and cleansed"? |
5652 | Who, indeed, will enlighten us concerning this Sweetmeat- Beethoven, if not Strauss himself-- the only person who seems to know anything about him? |
5652 | Whoever would have desired to possess the confessions, say, of a Ranke or a Mommsen? |
5652 | Why are there no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no hearts to feel, no brains to understand? |
5652 | Why did this star seem to him the brightest and purest of all? |
5652 | Why is there no male audience in England willing to listen to a manly and daring philosophy? |
5652 | Why should one, without further ceremony, immediately think of Christianity at the sound of the words"old faith"? |
5652 | Why, pray, art thou there at all? |
5652 | Will they not do more than acquaint men of it? |
5652 | and Whence? |
5652 | and even granting its development, how was it able to rise to the powerful Position of supreme judge concerning all questions of German culture? |
5652 | and of what order are his religious documents? |
5652 | and where are the Siegfrieds, among you? |
5652 | and where are the free and fearless, developing and blossoming in innocent egoism? |
5652 | if, for example, the Creator Himself had shared Lessing''s conviction of the superiority of struggle to tranquil possession?" |
4363 | And the praise of the self- sacrificer? |
4363 | Are not our ears already full of bad sounds? |
4363 | HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? 4363 How are synthetic judgments a priori POSSIBLE?" |
4363 | How many centuries does a mind require to be understood? |
4363 | Is it not sufficient if the criminal be rendered HARMLESS? 4363 Miracle"only an error of interpretation? |
4363 | Sir,the philosopher will perhaps give him to understand,"it is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth?" |
4363 | To refresh me? 4363 What? |
4363 | You want to prepossess him in your favour? 4363 ( Is not a moralist the opposite of a Puritan? 4363 --Stronger, more evil, and more profound?" |
4363 | --And Socrates?--And the"scientific man"? |
4363 | --Did any one ever answer so? |
4363 | --even such a virtuous and sincere ass would learn in a short time to have recourse to the FURCA of Horace, NATURAM EXPELLERE: with what results? |
4363 | --is it not so? |
4363 | --might it not be bluntly replied: WHY? |
4363 | 278.--Wanderer, who art thou? |
4363 | 281.--"Will people believe it of me? |
4363 | 282.--"But what has happened to you?" |
4363 | 92. Who has not, at one time or another-- sacrificed himself for the sake of his good name? |
4363 | A great man? |
4363 | A lack of philology? |
4363 | A wrestler, by himself too oft self- wrung? |
4363 | All respect to governesses, but is it not time that philosophy should renounce governess- faith? |
4363 | Am I an other? |
4363 | An evil huntsman was I? |
4363 | An explanation? |
4363 | And after all, what do we know of ourselves? |
4363 | And all that is now to be at an end? |
4363 | And even if they were right-- have not all Gods hitherto been such sanctified, re- baptized devils? |
4363 | And granted that your imperative,"living according to Nature,"means actually the same as"living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? |
4363 | And how many spirits we harbour? |
4363 | And is there anything finer than to SEARCH for one''s own virtues? |
4363 | And others say even that the external world is the work of our organs? |
4363 | And perhaps also the arrow, the duty, and, who knows? |
4363 | And perhaps ye are also something of the same kind, ye coming ones? |
4363 | And that the"tropical man"must be discredited at all costs, whether as disease and deterioration of mankind, or as his own hell and self- torture? |
4363 | And the DISENCHANTMENT of woman is in progress? |
4363 | And this would not be-- circulus vitiosus deus? |
4363 | And to any one who suggested:"But to a fiction belongs an originator?" |
4363 | And to ask once more the question: Is greatness POSSIBLE-- nowadays? |
4363 | And uncertainty? |
4363 | And was it ever otherwise? |
4363 | And what I am, to you my friends, now am I not? |
4363 | And what the spirit that leads us wants TO BE CALLED? |
4363 | And whoever thou art, what is it that now pleases thee? |
4363 | And why? |
4363 | And, in so far as we now comprehend this, is it not-- thereby already past? |
4363 | Are you absolutely obliged to straighten at once what is crooked? |
4363 | Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the demigod everything becomes a satyr- play; and around God everything becomes-- what? |
4363 | Became a ghost haunting the glaciers bare? |
4363 | But give me, I pray thee---"What? |
4363 | But she does not want truth-- what does woman care for truth? |
4363 | But such replies belong to the realm of comedy, and it is high time to replace the Kantian question,"How are synthetic judgments a PRIORI possible?" |
4363 | But who would attempt to express accurately what all these masters of new modes of speech could not express distinctly? |
4363 | But, is that-- an answer? |
4363 | COMMENT NE PAS SUPPOSER QUE C''EST DANS CES MOMENTS- LA, QUE L''HOMME VOIT LE MIEUX?"... |
4363 | Consequently, the external world is NOT the work of our organs--? |
4363 | Did he perhaps deserve to be laughed at when he thus exhorted systems of morals to practise morality? |
4363 | Did she ever find out? |
4363 | Does he not-- go back?" |
4363 | Does it not seem that there is a hatred of the virgin forest and of the tropics among moralists? |
4363 | Does not that mean in popular language: God is disproved, but not the devil?" |
4363 | Even an action for love''s sake shall be"unegoistic"? |
4363 | Even ignorance? |
4363 | FROM THE HEIGHTS( POEM TRANSLATED BY L.A. MAGNUS) PREFACE SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman-- what then? |
4363 | Finally, I ask the question: Did a woman herself ever acknowledge profundity in a woman''s mind, or justice in a woman''s heart? |
4363 | Finally, what still remained to be sacrificed? |
4363 | For example, truth out of error? |
4363 | From German body, this self- lacerating? |
4363 | Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? |
4363 | Had the wicked Socrates really corrupted him? |
4363 | Hand, gait, face, changed? |
4363 | Has not the time leisure? |
4363 | Have I forgotten myself so far that I have not even told you his name? |
4363 | Have not we ourselves been-- that"noble posterity"? |
4363 | Have there ever been such philosophers? |
4363 | He who has such sentiments, he who has such KNOWLEDGE about love-- SEEKS for death!--But why should one deal with such painful matters? |
4363 | Hindering too oft my own self''s potency, Wounded and hampered by self- victory? |
4363 | How could he fail-- to long DIFFERENTLY for happiness? |
4363 | How does opium induce sleep? |
4363 | How is the negation of will POSSIBLE? |
4363 | I am not I? |
4363 | In favour of the temperate men? |
4363 | In favour of the"temperate zones"? |
4363 | Indeed, what is it that forces us in general to the supposition that there is an essential opposition of"true"and"false"? |
4363 | Indeed, who could doubt that it is a useful thing for SUCH minds to have the ascendancy for a time? |
4363 | Is it any wonder if we at last grow distrustful, lose patience, and turn impatiently away? |
4363 | Is it necessary that you should so salt your truth that it will no longer-- quench thirst? |
4363 | Is it not almost to BELIEVE in one''s own virtues? |
4363 | Is it not at length permitted to be a little ironical towards the subject, just as towards the predicate and object? |
4363 | Is it not in the very worst taste that woman thus sets herself up to be scientific? |
4363 | Is moralizing not- immoral?) |
4363 | Is not life a hundred times too short for us-- to bore ourselves? |
4363 | Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? |
4363 | Is not the glacier''s grey today for you Rose- garlanded? |
4363 | Is ours this faltering, falling, shambling, This quite uncertain ding- dong- dangling? |
4363 | Is ours this priestly hand- dilation, This incense- fuming exaltation? |
4363 | Is that really-- a pessimist? |
4363 | Is there not time enough for that? |
4363 | It IS characteristic of the Germans that the question:"What is German?" |
4363 | It is not enough to possess a talent: one must also have your permission to possess it;--eh, my friends? |
4363 | It may happen, too, that in the frankness of my story I must go further than is agreeable to the strict usages of your ears? |
4363 | Kant asks himself-- and what is really his answer? |
4363 | Let us examine more closely: what is the scientific man? |
4363 | MUST there not be such philosophers some day? |
4363 | May not this"belong"also belong to the fiction? |
4363 | Might not the philosopher elevate himself above faith in grammar? |
4363 | My honey-- who hath sipped its fragrancy? |
4363 | My table was spread out for you on high-- Who dwelleth so Star- near, so near the grisly pit below?-- My realm-- what realm hath wider boundary? |
4363 | Not long ago you were so variegated, young and malicious, so full of thorns and secret spices, that you made me sneeze and laugh-- and now? |
4363 | Of whom am I talking to you? |
4363 | Oh, ye demons, can ye not at all WAIT? |
4363 | One MUST repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill? |
4363 | Or is it not rather merely a repetition of the question? |
4363 | Or stupid enough? |
4363 | Or, to put the question differently:"Why knowledge at all?" |
4363 | Or:"Even if the door were open, why should I enter immediately?" |
4363 | Or:"What is the use of any hasty hypotheses? |
4363 | She is modest enough to love even you? |
4363 | Should not the CONTRARY only be the right disguise for the shame of a God to go about in? |
4363 | Strange am I to Me? |
4363 | THE DANGER IN HAPPINESS.--"Everything now turns out best for me, I now love every fate:--who would like to be my fate?" |
4363 | That is to say, as a thinker who regards morality as questionable, as worthy of interrogation, in short, as a problem? |
4363 | That this Sphinx teaches us at last to ask questions ourselves? |
4363 | The image of such leaders hovers before OUR eyes:--is it lawful for me to say it aloud, ye free spirits? |
4363 | The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us-- or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem? |
4363 | The tediousness of woman is slowly evolving? |
4363 | The"moral"? |
4363 | Their"knowing"is CREATING, their creating is a law- giving, their will to truth is-- WILL TO POWER.--Are there at present such philosophers? |
4363 | There I learned to dwell Where no man dwells, on lonesome ice- lorn fell, And unlearned Man and God and curse and prayer? |
4363 | There must be a sort of repugnance in me to BELIEVE anything definite about myself.--Is there perhaps some enigma therein? |
4363 | There, however, he deceived himself; but who would not have deceived himself in his place? |
4363 | They will smile, those rigorous spirits, when any one says in their presence"That thought elevates me, why should it not be true?" |
4363 | To famish apart? |
4363 | To live-- is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? |
4363 | To love one''s enemies? |
4363 | To refresh me? |
4363 | Uneaseful joy to look, to lurk, to hark-- I peer for friends, am ready day and night,-- Where linger ye, my friends? |
4363 | Unless it be that you have already divined of your own accord who this questionable God and spirit is, that wishes to be PRAISED in such a manner? |
4363 | WHAT IS NOBLE? |
4363 | WHAT really is this"Will to Truth"in us? |
4363 | WHO is it really that puts questions to us here? |
4363 | Was Socrates after all a corrupter of youths, and deserved his hemlock?" |
4363 | Was he wrong? |
4363 | Was it not necessary to sacrifice God himself, and out of cruelty to themselves to worship stone, stupidity, gravity, fate, nothingness? |
4363 | Was that a work for your hands? |
4363 | What avail is it? |
4363 | What does all modern philosophy mainly do? |
4363 | What does the word"noble"still mean for us nowadays? |
4363 | What gives me the right to speak of an''ego,''and even of an''ego''as cause, and finally of an''ego''as cause of thought?" |
4363 | What is clear, what is"explained"? |
4363 | What is noble? |
4363 | What linked us once together, one hope''s tie--( Who now doth con Those lines, now fading, Love once wrote thereon?) |
4363 | What will serve to refresh thee? |
4363 | What will the moral philosophers who appear at this time have to preach? |
4363 | What wonder that we"free spirits"are not exactly the most communicative spirits? |
4363 | What, then, is the attitude of the two greatest religions above- mentioned to the SURPLUS of failures in life? |
4363 | What? |
4363 | What? |
4363 | What? |
4363 | What? |
4363 | Which of us is the Oedipus here? |
4363 | Which the Sphinx? |
4363 | Whom I thank when in my bliss? |
4363 | Why Atheism nowadays? |
4363 | Why NOT? |
4363 | Why did we choose it, this foolish task? |
4363 | Why do I believe in cause and effect? |
4363 | Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US-- be a fiction? |
4363 | Why should we still punish? |
4363 | Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? |
4363 | Will they be new friends of"truth,"these coming philosophers? |
4363 | Woe me,--yet I am not He whom ye seek? |
4363 | Yet from Me sprung? |
4363 | You desire to LIVE"according to Nature"? |
4363 | and what guarantee would it give that it would not continue to do what it has always been doing? |
4363 | by another question,"Why is belief in such judgments necessary?" |
4363 | for what purpose? |
4363 | into a new light? |
4363 | or the Will to Truth out of the will to deception? |
4363 | or the generous deed out of selfishness? |
4363 | or the pure sun- bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness? |
4363 | or"That artist enlarges me, why should he not be great?" |
4363 | or"That work enchants me, why should it not be beautiful?" |
4363 | perhaps a"world"? |
4363 | that we do not wish to betray in every respect WHAT a spirit can free itself from, and WHERE perhaps it will then be driven? |
4363 | to stuff every hole with some kind of oakum? |
4363 | towards a new sun? |
4363 | what hast thou done? |
4363 | what? |
4363 | ye NEW philosophers? |