THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS & THE ANTICHRIST

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Friedrich Nietzsche. THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS & THE ANTICHRIST

THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS & THE ANTICHRIST

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Table of Contents

The Antichrist. Translator: H. L. Mencken

Introduction

Preface

The Antichrist

The Twilight of the Idols. Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici

Introduction

Preface

Maxims and Missiles

The Problem of Socrates

"Reason" in Philosophy

How The "true World" Ultimately Became A Fable. THE HISTORY OF AN ERROR

Morality as the Enemy of Nature

The Four Great Errors

The "Improvers" of Mankind

Things the Germans Lack

Skirmishes in a War with the Age

Things I Owe to the Ancients

The Hammer Speaketh

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (An Autobiography) Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici, Paul V. Cohn, Francis Bickley, Herman Scheffauer, G. T. Wrench

Introduction

Preface

Why I Am So Wise

Why I Am So Clever

Why I Write Such Excellent Books

"The Birth of Tragedy"

"Thoughts Out of Season"

"Human, All-Too-Human"

"The Dawn of Day: Thoughts About Morality as a Prejudice"

"Joyful Wisdom: La Gaya Scienza"

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For All and None"

Beyond Good and Evil: "The Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future"

"The Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic"

"The Twilight of the Idols: How to Philosophise with the Hammer"

"The Case of Wagner: A Musician's Problem"

Why I Am A Fatality

Songs, Epigrams, Etc

Songs

Epigrams

Dionysus-Dithyrambs

(1888)

Fragments of Dionysus-Dithyrambs

(1882-88)

Hymn to Life

Selected Personal Letters. Translator: Anthony M. Ludovici

Nietzsche To His Sister - March, 1856

Nietzsche To His Mother - November, 1859

Nietzsche To His Mother - February, 1862

Nietzsche To His Mother - November, 1862

Nietzsche To His Mother - April, 1863

Nietzsche To His Mother - May, 1863

Nietzsche To His Mother and Sister - Sept., 1864

Nietzsche To His Mother and Sister - November, 1864

Nietzsche To His Mother and Sister - February, 1865

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - May, 1865

Nietzsche To His Mother - June, 1865

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - April, 1866

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - January, 1867

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - February, 1867

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - April, 1867

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - December, 1867

To Rohde - February, 1868

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - February, 1868

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - June, 1868

To Frau Ritschl - July, 1868

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - August, 1868

To Rohde - October, 1868

To Rohde - November, 1868

To Rohde - November, 1868

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - April, 1869

To Rohde - August, 1869

Nietzsche To His Mother - August, 1869

To Rohde - February, 1870

Nietzsche To His Mother - August, 1870

Nietzsche To His Mother

To Ritschl - September, 1870

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - October, 1870

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - November, 1870

To His Mother And Sister - December, 1870

To Rohde - December, 1870

To Rohde - January, 1872

To Rohde - June, 1872

Nietzsche To His Mother - October, 1872

To Rohde - November, 1872

Nietzsche To Malvida Von Meysenbug - April, 1873

Nietzsche To His Mother - September, 1873

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - October, 1873

To Rohde - December, 1873

To Rohde - February, 1874

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - April, 1874

To Rohde - October, 1874

Nietzsche To Malvida Von Meysenbug - October, 1874

Nietzsche To His Sister - January, 1875

To Rohde - February, 1875

To Rohde - December, 1875

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - December, 1875

To Freiherr R. v. Seydlitz - September, 1876

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - May, 1876

To Madame Louise O. - September, 1876

To Rohde - August, 1877

To Madame Louise O. - August, 1877

To Seydlitz - January, 1878

Nietzsche To Malvida Von Meysenbug - June, 1878

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - March, 1879

Nietzsche To His Mother And Sister - April, 1879

Nietzsche To The President Of The Educational Council - May, 1879

Nietzsche To His Publisher - May, 1879

Ruling of the Governing Body of Bale University - June, 1879

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - September, 1879

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - October, 1879

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - July, 1880

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - August, 1880

To Herr Ob. Rer. R. Krug - November, 1880

To Rohde - March, 1881

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - April, 1881

Nietzsche To His Sister - June, 1881

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - August, 1881

Nietzsche To His Mother - August, 1881

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - August, 1881

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - November, 1881

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - December, 1881

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - January, 1882

To Herr. Ob. Reg. R. Krug - February, 1882

Nietzsche To His Sister - February, 1882

To Rohde - July, 1882

To Madame Louise O. - September, 1882

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - February, 1883

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - February, 1883

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - March, 1883

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - April, 1883

To Freiherr Karl Von Gersdorff - June, 1883

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - July, 1883

To Peter Gast - July, 1883

To Peter Gast - August, 1883

Nietzsche To His Mother - August, 1883

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - August, 1883

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - August, 1883

Nietzsche To His Sister - August, 1883

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - September, 1883

Nietzsche To His Sister - November, 1883

To Rohde - February, 1884

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - December, 1885

Nietzsche To His Sister and Brother-in-Law - December, 1885

Nietzsche To His Sister - February, 1886

Nietzsche To His Sister - July, 1886

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - July, 1886

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - October, 1886

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - January, 1887

To Seydlitz - February, 1887

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - March, 1887

Nietzsche To His Sister - March, 1887

Nietzsche To His Sister - April, 1887

Nietzsche To Malvida Von Meysenbug - May, 1887

To Rohde - May, 1887

To Rohde - May, 1887

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - November 3, 1887

To Rohde - November, 1887

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - November, 1887

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - December, 1887

To Karl Fuchs - December, 1887

Nietzsche To His Sister - January, 1888

Nietzsche To Peter Gast - February, 1888

To Seydlitz - February, 1888

Translator's Notes

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Friedrich Nietzsche

The Twilight of the Idols

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I can only repeat that I set myself against all efforts to intrude the fanatic into the figure of the Saviour: the very word impérieux, used by Renan, is alone enough to annul the type. What the “glad tidings” tell us is simply that there are no more contradictions; the kingdom of heaven belongs to children; the faith that is voiced here is no more an embattled faith—it is at hand, it has been from the beginning, it is a sort of recrudescent childishness of the spirit. The physiologists, at all events, are familiar with such a delayed and incomplete puberty in the living organism, the result of degeneration. A faith of this sort is not furious, it does not denounce, it does not defend itself: it does not come with “the sword”—it does not realize how it will one day set man against man. It does not manifest itself either by miracles, or by rewards and promises, or by “scriptures”: it is itself, first and last, its own miracle, its own reward, its own promise, its own “kingdom of God.” This faith does not formulate itself—it simply lives, and so guards itself against formulae. To be sure, the accident of environment, of educational background gives prominence to concepts of a certain sort: in primitive Christianity one finds only concepts of a Judaeo-Semitic character (—that of eating and drinking at the last supper belongs to this category—an idea which, like everything else Jewish, has been badly mauled by the church). But let us be careful not to see in all this anything more than symbolical language, semantics6 an opportunity to speak in parables. It is only on the theory that no work is to be taken literally that this anti-realist is able to speak at all. Set down among Hindus he would have made use of the concepts of Sankhya,7 and among Chinese he would have employed those of Lao-tse8—and in neither case would it have made any difference to him.—With a little freedom in the use of words, one might actually call Jesus a “free spirit”9—he cares nothing for what is established: the word killeth,10 whatever is established killeth. The idea of “life” as an experience, as he alone conceives it, stands opposed to his mind to every sort of word, formula, law, belief and dogma. He speaks only of inner things: “life” or “truth” or “light” is his word for the innermost—in his sight everything else, the whole of reality, all nature, even language, has significance only as sign, as allegory.—Here it is of paramount importance to be led into no error by the temptations lying in Christian, or rather ecclesiastical prejudices: such a symbolism par excellence stands outside all religion, all notions of worship, all history, all natural science, all worldly experience, all knowledge, all politics, all psychology, all books, all art—his “wisdom” is precisely a pure ignorance11 of all such things. He has never heard of culture; he doesn’t have to make war on it—he doesn’t even deny it.... The same thing may be said of the state, of the whole bourgeoise social order, of labour, of war—he has no ground for denying “the world,” for he knows nothing of the ecclesiastical concept of “the world”.... Denial is precisely the thing that is impossible to him.—In the same way he lacks argumentative capacity, and has no belief that an article of faith, a “truth,” may be established by proofs (—his proofs are inner “lights,” subjective sensations of happiness and self-approval, simple “proofs of power”—). Such a doctrine cannot contradict: it doesn’t know that other doctrines exist, or can exist, and is wholly incapable of imagining anything opposed to it.... If anything of the sort is ever encountered, it laments the “blindness” with sincere sympathy—for it alone has “light”—but it does not offer objections....

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew vi, 33.)—All these things: namely, food, clothing, all the necessities of life. An error, to put it mildly.... A bit before this God appears as a tailor, at least in certain cases....

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