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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- #37Explosive People
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- #38Altered Taste
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- #39The Lack of a noble manners
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- #40Against Remorse
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- #41Work and boredom
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- #42What Laws reveal
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- #43Supposed Motives
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- #44Epicurus
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- #45Our Astonishment
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- #46The Suppression of the Passions
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- #47Knowledge of Distress
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- #48Magnanimity and related matters
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- #49The Argument of Isolation
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- #50Sense for Truth
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- #51What others Know of us
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- #52Where Goodness Begins
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- #53The Consciousness of Appearance
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- #54The Ultimate Nobility of Character
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- #55The Desire for Suffering
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- #56To the Realists
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- #57Only as Creators!
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- #58We Artists!
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- #59Women and their Effect in the Distance
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- #60In Honour of Friendship
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- #61Love
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- #62Woman in Music
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- #63Sceptics
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- #64Devotedness
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- #65The Strength of the Weak
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- #66Self dissembling
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- #67Will and Willingness
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- #68Capacity for Revenge
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- #69The Mistresses of the Masters
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- #70On Female Chastity
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- #71Mothers
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- #72Saintly Cruelty
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- #73The Unsuccessful
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- #74The Third Sex
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- #75The greatest Danger
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- #76The Animal with a good Conscience
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- #77What we should be Grateful for
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- #78The Charm of Imperfection
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- #79Art and Nature
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- #80Grecian taste
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- #81Esprit as un-Grecian
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- #82Translations
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- #83The Origin of Religion
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- #84The Good and the Beautiful
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- #85The Theatre
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- #86The Conceit of Artists
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- #87Earnestness for the Truth
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- #88Now and Formerly
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- #89Lights and Shades
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- #90Precaution
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- #91Prose and Poetry
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- #92But why, then, do you Write?
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- #93Growth after Death
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- #94Chamfort
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- #95Two Orators
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- #96The Loquacity of Authors
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- #97In Honour of Shakespeare
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- #98The Followers of Schopenhauer
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- #99Learning to do Homage
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- #100Voltaire
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- #101A Word for Philologists
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- #102German Music
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- #103The Tone of the German Language
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- #104The Germans as Artists
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- #105Music as Advocate
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- #106Our Ultimate Gratitude to Art
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- #107New Struggles
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- #108Let us be on our Guard
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- #109Origin of Knowledge
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- #110Origin of the Logical
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- #111Cause and Effect
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- #112The Theory of Posions
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- #113The Extent of the Moral
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- #114The Four Errors
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- #115Herd Instinct
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- #116The Herd’s Sting of Conscience
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- #117Benevolence
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- #118No Altruism!
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- #119Health of the Soul
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- #120Life no Argument
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- #121The Element of Moral Scepticism in Christianity
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- #122Knowledge, more than a Means
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- #123In the Horizon of the Infinite
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- #124The Madman
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- #125Mystical Explanations
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- #126After effect of the most Ancient Religiousness
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- #127The Value of Prayer
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- #128The Conditions for God
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- #129A Dangerous Resolution
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- #130Christianity and Suicide
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- #131Against Christianity
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- #132Axioms
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- #133Pessimists as Victims
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- #134Origin of Sin
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- #135The Chosen People
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- #136Spoken in Parable
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- #137The Error of Christ.
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- #138Colour of the Passions
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- #139Too Jewish
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- #140Too Oriental
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- #141Frankincense
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- #142The Greatest advantage of Polytheism
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- #143Religious Wars
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- #144Danger for vegetarians
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- #145German Hopes
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- #146Question and Answer
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- #147Where Reformations Originate
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- #148The Failure of Reformations
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- #149Criticism of Saints
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- #150For Moral Enlightenment
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- #151Concerning Eloquence
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- #152To be Profound and to Appear Profound
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- #153Compassion
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- #154Fame
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- #155The Happiness of Renunciation
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- #156To the Admirers of the Age
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- #157After a Great Victory
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- #158In Intercourse with Virtues
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- #159An Inconvenient Peculiarity
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- #160Thoughts
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- #161Mentiri
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- #162The Good Time for Free Spirits
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- #163Apart
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- #164With the crowd
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- #165The Perverter of Taste
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- #166Always in our own Society
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- #167Open Enemies
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- #168Misanthropy and Philanthropy
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- #169Concerning a sick Man
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- #170Egoism
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- #171The most Influential Person
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- #172Homo poeta
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- #173Differences in the Dangerousness of Life
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- #174Those who Seek Repose
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- #175Every Virtue has its Time
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- #176What we Lack
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- #177The greatest Change
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- #178On “Educational Matters”
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- #179The 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!"