What is Life?
Friedrich Nietzsche * Track #26 On The Gay Science
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- #1The Teachers of the purpose of Existence
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- #2The Intellectual Conscience
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- #3Noble and common
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- #4That which Preserves the Species
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- #5Unconditional Duties
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- #6Loss of Dignity
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- #7Something for the Industrious
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- #8Unconscious Virtues
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- #9Our Eruptions
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- #10A kind of Atavism
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- #11Consciousness
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- #12The Goal of Science
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- #13The Theory of the Sense of Power
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- #14What is called Love
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- #15Out of the Distance
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- #16Over the footbridge
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- #17Motivation for Poverty
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- #18Ancient Pride
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- #19Evil
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- #20Dignity of Folly
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- #21To the Teachers of Unselfishness
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- #22Present is still pleased to repose
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- #23The Characteristics of Corruption
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- #24Diverse Dissatisfactions
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- #25Not Predestined for Knowledge
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- #26What is Life?
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- #27The Man of Renunciation
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- #28To be harmful with what is best in us
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- #29Adventitious Liars
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- #30The Comedy of Celebrities
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- #31Commerce and Nobility
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- #32Undesirable Disciples
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- #33Outside the Lecture hall
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- #34Historia abscontia
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- #35Heresy and Witchcraft
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- #36Last Words
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- #38Explosive People
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- #39Altered Taste
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- #40The Lack of a noble manners
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- #41Against Remorse
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- #42Work and boredom
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- #43What Laws reveal
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- #44Supposed Motives
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- #45Epicurus
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- #46Our Astonishment
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- #47The Suppression of the Passions
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- #48Knowledge of Distress
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- #49Magnanimity and related matters
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- #50The Argument of Isolation
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- #51Sense for Truth
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- #52What others Know of us
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- #53Where Goodness Begins
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- #54The Consciousness of Appearance
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- #55The Ultimate Nobility of Character
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- #56The Desire for Suffering
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- #57To the Realists
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- #58Only as Creators!
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- #59We Artists!
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- #60Women and their Effect in the Distance
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- #61In Honour of Friendship
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- #62Love
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- #63Woman in Music
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- #64Sceptics
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- #65Devotedness
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- #66The Strength of the Weak
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- #67Self dissembling
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- #68Will and Willingness
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- #69Capacity for Revenge
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- #70The Mistresses of the Masters
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- #71On Female Chastity
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- #72Mothers
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- #73Saintly Cruelty
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- #74The Unsuccessful
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- #75The Third Sex
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- #76The greatest Danger
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- #77The Animal with a good Conscience
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- #78What we should be Grateful for
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- #79The Charm of Imperfection
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- #80Art and Nature
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- #81Grecian taste
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- #82Esprit as un-Grecian
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- #83Translations
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- #84The Origin of Religion
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- #85The Good and the Beautiful
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- #86The Theatre
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- #87The Conceit of Artists
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- #88Earnestness for the Truth
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- #89Now and Formerly
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- #90Lights and Shades
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- #91Precaution
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- #92Prose and Poetry
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- #93But why, then, do you Write?
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- #94Growth after Death
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- #95Chamfort
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- #96Two Orators
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- #97The Loquacity of Authors
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- #98In Honour of Shakespeare
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- #99The Followers of Schopenhauer
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- #100Learning to do Homage
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- #101Voltaire
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- #102A Word for Philologists
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- #103German Music
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- #104The Tone of the German Language
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- #105The Germans as Artists
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- #106Music as Advocate
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- #107Our Ultimate Gratitude to Art
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- #108New Struggles
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- #109Let us be on our Guard
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- #110Origin of Knowledge
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- #111Origin of the Logical
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- #112Cause and Effect
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- #113The Theory of Posions
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- #114The Extent of the Moral
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- #115The Four Errors
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- #116Herd Instinct
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- #117The Herd’s Sting of Conscience
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- #118Benevolence
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- #119No Altruism!
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- #120Health of the Soul
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- #121Life no Argument
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- #122The Element of Moral Scepticism in Christianity
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- #123Knowledge, more than a Means
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- #124In the Horizon of the Infinite
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- #125The Madman
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- #126Mystical Explanations
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- #127After effect of the most Ancient Religiousness
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- #128The Value of Prayer
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- #129The Conditions for God
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- #130A Dangerous Resolution
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- #131Christianity and Suicide
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- #132Against Christianity
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- #133Axioms
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- #134Pessimists as Victims
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- #135Origin of Sin
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- #136The Chosen People
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- #137Spoken in Parable
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- #138The Error of Christ.
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- #139Colour of the Passions
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- #140Too Jewish
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- #141Too Oriental
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- #142Frankincense
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- #143The Greatest advantage of Polytheism
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- #144Religious Wars
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- #145Danger for vegetarians
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- #146German Hopes
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- #147Question and Answer
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- #148Where Reformations Originate
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- #149The Failure of Reformations
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- #150Criticism of Saints
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- #151For Moral Enlightenment
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- #152Concerning Eloquence
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- #153To be Profound and to Appear Profound
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- #154Compassion
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- #155Fame
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- #156The Happiness of Renunciation
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- #157To the Admirers of the Age
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- #158After a Great Victory
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- #159In Intercourse with Virtues
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- #160An Inconvenient Peculiarity
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- #161Thoughts
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- #162Mentiri
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- #163The Good Time for Free Spirits
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- #164Apart
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- #165With the crowd
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- #166The Perverter of Taste
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- #167Always in our own Society
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- #168Open Enemies
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- #169Misanthropy and Philanthropy
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- #170Concerning a sick Man
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- #171Egoism
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- #172The most Influential Person
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- #173Homo poeta
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- #174Differences in the Dangerousness of Life
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- #175Those who Seek Repose
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- #176Every Virtue has its Time
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- #177What we Lack
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- #178The greatest Change
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- #179On “Educational Matters”
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- #180The Origin of Poetry
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What is Life? by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life - that is : continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is : to be cruel and inexorable towards all that becomes weak and old in ourselves and not only in ourselves. Life - that means, therefore to be without reverence for those who are dying, the wretched and the old? To be continually a murderer? Yet old Moses said: "you shalt not kill!"