The Dawn of Day

by Friedrich Nietzsche

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THE WORKS OF
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The Works of Friedrich Niet zsche

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VOL. I. A GENEALOGY OF MORALS

POEMS

Translated by William A. Haussman and John Gray.

VOL. II. THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA

A BOOK FOR ALL AND ALL

Translated by Alexander Tille.

VOL. III. THE CASE OF WAGNER

NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER

THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS

THE ANTICHRIST

Translated by Thomas Common.

VOL. IV. THE DAWN OF DAY

Translated by Johanna Volz.
Other Volumes to follow.
LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN

THE DAWN OF DAY

BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

TRANSLATED BY JOHANNA VOLZ

LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1903

THE DAWN OF DAY

There is many a dawn which
has not yet shed its light.

Rigveda.

Books (not listed in original)

1. Preface
2. First Book
3. Second Book
4. Third Book
5. Fourth Book
6. Fifth Book

CONTENTS

		Page
Preface		xxi
First Book		xxxi
1	Posthumous rationality	1
2	Prejudice of the learned	1
3	There is a time for everything	1
4	A word against the fancied inharmoniousness of the spheres	2
5	Be thankful	2
6	The juggler and his counterpart	2
7	A new conception of space	3
8	Transfiguration	3
9	Conception of a morality of custom	3
10	Counter-movement of the senses of morality and causality	7
11	Popular morals and popular medicine	8
12	Sequence an accessory	9
13	The new education of mankind	9
14	Bearing of insanity on the history of morality	10
15	The most ancient means of solace	13
16	First rule of civilisation	13
17	Good and evil nature	14
18	The morals of voluntary suffering	14
19	Morality and obscurantism	17
20	Free-doers and free-thinkers	18
21	Fulfilment of the law	18
22	Works and faith	19
23	What we are most subtle in	20
24	The proof for a prescription	21
25	Custom and beauty	22
26	Animals and morality	22
27	The value of the belief in superhuman passions	24
28	Mood as an argument	25
29	The actors of virtue and sin	26
30	Refined cruelty as virtue	26
31	The pride of intellectuality	28
32	The brake	28
33	The contempt of causes, consequences and reality	29
34	Moral feelings and moral conceptions	31
35	Feelings as descended from judgments	31
36	A foolish piety with hidden purpose	32
37	Erroneous conclusions from usefulness	32
38	Cravings transformed by moral judgments	33
39	The prejudice of the pure intellect	35
40	Speculation on observance	36
41	Valuation of the "life contemplative"	36
42	Origin of the "life contemplative"	38
43	How many forces nowadays make up a thinker?	40
44	Origin and importance	41
45	A tragic outcome of knowledge	42
46	Doubt of doubt	43
47	Words block our way	43
48	"Know thyself" is the essence of all science	43
49	The new fundamental feeling: our ultimate transitoriness	43
50	The belief in paroxysm	44
51	Such as we still are	46
52	Where are the new physicians of the soul	46
53	Abuse of the conscientious	47
54	Thoughts about disease	47
55	The "Ways"	48
56	The apostate of the independent mind	48
57	Other fears, other guarantees	50
58	Christianity and the passions	50
59	Error as comfort	51
60	All spirit at last assumes a visible body	51
61	The sacrifice which is needful	53
62	On the origin of religions	53
63	Hatred against one's neighbour	55
64	Despairing souls	55
65	Brahminism and Christianity	55
66	Capability of vision	56
67	Price of the Believer	56
68	The first Christian	56
69	Inimitable	61
70	What a rude intellect is good for	61
71	The Christian revenge on Rome	62
72	The life after death	63
73	For "truth"	66
74	Christian reservation	66
75	Neither European nor aristocratic	66
76	Evil thoughts make evil minds	67
77	On mental agonies	68
78	Justice inflicting punishment	71
79	A suggestion	72
80	The Compassionate Christian	73
81	Humanity of the saint	73
82	The spiritual onslaught	74
83	Poor humanity!	74
84	The philology of Christianity	74
85	Subtlety in deficiency	76
86	The Christian interpreters of the body	76
97	The moral miracle	77
88	Luther, the great benefactor	78
89	Doubt, a sin	79
90	Selfishness against selfishness	80
91	The honesty of God	80
92	At the death-bed of Christianity	82
93	What is truth?	83
94	Remedy for the ill-humoured	83
95	The historic refutation as the final one	83
96	"In hoc signo vinces"	84
Second Book		87
97	We grow moral not because we are moral	89
98	Transformation of morals	89
99	Where we all are irrational	89
100	Waking from a dream	89
101	Hazardous	90
102	The oldest moral judgments	90
103	There are two classes of deniers of morality	91
104	Our valuations	92
105	Pseudo-egotism	93
106	Against the definitions of moral aims	94
107	Our claim to our folly	95
108	A few theses	96
109	Self-control and moderation, and their final motive	98
110	What is it that resists?	101
111	To the admirers of objectiveness	101
112	On the natural history of duty and right	102
113	Our striving after distinction	105
114	On the sufferer's knowledge	108
115	The so-called "ego"	111
116	The unknown world of the subject	112
117	In prison	114
118	What then is our neighbour ?	116
119	Experience and fiction	116
120	To case the mind of the sceptic	120
121	Cause and effect	121
122	The purposes in nature	121
123	Reason.	122
121	What is volition?	122
125	Of the realm of freedom	122
126	Oblivion	123
127	For a purpose	123
128	Dream and responsibility	123
129	The alleged contest of motives	124
130	Purposes? Will?	126
131	The moral fashions	129
132	Christianity dying away in morality	130
133	To cease thinking of oneself .	132
134	In how far we have to beware of pity	136
135	Being pitied	137
136	Happiness in pity	137
137	Why double our "ego"?	138
138	Increase of tenderness	139
139	Nominally higher	140
140	Praise and blame	140
141	More beautiful, but less valuable	142
142	Sympathy	142
143	Woe, if this craving should rage!	146
144	Closing the ears to misery	146
145	Unselfish	147
146	Even across our neighbour	147
147	Cause of "altruism"	149
148	Future outlook.	150
Third Book		153
149	Small inconventionalities are needed	155
150	The accidentality of matrimony	156
151	New ideals to be invented	156
152	Formula of oath	157
153	A malcontent	157
154	Comfort in a life of peril	158
155	Extinct scepticism	158
156	Evil through wantonness	158
157	Worship of the natural sounds	158
158	Where flattery grows	159
159	The resuscitators.	159
160	Vain, covetous and hardly wise	160
161	Beauty correspondent to the century	160
162	The irony of the present age	160
163	Rousseau rebutted	160
164	Perhaps premature	161
165	The morality which does not weary	162
166	At the crossing of the roads	162
167	Unconditional homage	163
168	A model	166
169	Hellenism foreign to us	167
170	Another perspective of feeling	168
171	Food for the modern man	168
172	Tragedy and music	168
173	The panegyrists at work	170
174	Moral fashion of a commercial society	170
175	Fundamental notion of a culture of traders	172
176	The criticism on the ancestors.	172
177	To learn solitude.	173
178	The daily wear and tear	173
179	As little of the State as possible	174
180	Wars	175
181	Governing	175
182	Rough consistency	175
183	The old and the young	176
184	The State as a production of anarchists	176
185	Beggars	177
156	Business-men	177
187	Of a possible future	177
188	Stimulants and food .	178
189	Haute politique	179
190	German culture in the past	180
191	Better people	182
192	Wishing for perfect opponents.	183
193	Wit and morals	185
194	Vanity of the teachers of morals	186
195	The so-called classical education	187
196	The most personal questions of truth	190
197	Animosity of the Germans against enlightenment	191
198	How to lend prestige to one's country	193
199	We are of nobler minds	193
200	Endurance of poverty	195
201	Future of the nobility	195
202	Hygienics	197
203	Against bad dict	200
204	Danae and the god in showers of gold	202
205	The people of Israel	203
206	The impossible state	206
207	Attitude of the Germans towards morality	209
Fourth Book		215
208	Question of conscience	217
209	Usefulness of the strictest theories	217
210	The "thing in itself"	217
211	To the dreamers of immortality	218
212	Wherein we know ourselves	219
213	Men whose lives have been blighted	219
214	Avaunt, forbearance!	220
215	Moral of victims.	220
216	The evil ones and music	221
217	The artist.	222
218	Dealing like an artist with one's foibles	222
219	The deceit in humiliation.	223
220	Dignity and timidity	224
221	Morality of the victim	224
222	Where fanaticism is desirable	224
223	The dreaded eye	225
224	The "elevating" element in our neighbour's misfortune	225
225	Means of making oneself easily despised	226
226	On the intercourse with celebrities	226
227	Chain-wearers	226
928	Revenge in praise	227
2:29	Pride	227
230	Utilitarian	227
231	On German virtue	227
232	From a controversy	228
233	The conscientious	228
234	Dread of renown	228
235	Spurning gratitude	229
236	Punishment	229
237	A party-trouble	229
238	The striving after grace	229
289	A hint to moralists	230
240	Stage-morality	231
241	Fear and intelligence	232
242	Independence	233
243	The two directions	233
244	Delight in the real	233
245	Subtlety of the sense of power	234
246	Aristotle and matrimony	235
247	Origin of bad temper	235
248	Dissimulation, a duty	235
249	Who then is ever alone?	236
250	Night and music	236
251	Stoic	236
252	Consider!	237
253	Appearances	237
254	The anticipating ones	237
255	Conversation on music	237
256	Felicity of the evil	240
257	Words present in our minds	240
258	Coaxing the dog	241
259	The whilom panegyrist	241
260	Amulet of the dependent	241
261	Why so superior?	241
262	The demon of power	241
263	Contradiction, embodied and animated	242
264	Wishing to be mistaken	242
265	There is time for the theatre	243
266	Void of charm	243
267	Why so proud?	243
268	The orator's Scylla and Charybdis	244
269	Invalids and art	244
270	Apparent toleration	244
271	Festive mood	245
272	The purification of races	246
273	Praise	247
274	Human right and privilege	248
275	The transformed	248
276	How often! how unexpected!	248
277	Hot and cold virtues	248
278	The benevolent memory	249
279	Wherein we become artists	249
280	Childlike	250
281	Our "ego" claims everything	250
282	Danger in beauty	250
283	Domestic and mental peace	250
284	Producing a news as though it were stale	251
285	Where are the final limits of our "ego"?	251
286	Domestic and pet animals and the like	251
287	Two friends.	252
288	A comedy of the nobles	252
289	Where we may not rise our voices against virtue	252
290	An extravagance	252
291	Presumption.	253
292	A kind of misconception	253
293	Thankful	254
294	Saints	254
295	Art of serving	254
296	The duel.	255
297	Pernicious	255
298	Hero-worship and its fanatics	255
299	Semblance of heroism.	257
300	Condescending to the flatterer	257
301	Strength of character"	257
302	Once, twice, and thrice true	258
303	Sport of the discerner of men	258
304	The destroyers of the world	259
305	Avarice	259
306	The Greek ideal	259
307	Facta! Ay, Facta ficta	260
308	To be a stranger to trade is noble	260
309	Fear and love	260
310	The good-natured	261
311	The so-called soul.	261
312	The forgetful	262
313	The friend we want no more	262
314	From the academy of thinkers.	262
315	To strip oneself	263
316	Weak sects	263
317	Evening judgment	263
318	Beware of systematists	264
319	Hospitality	264
320	About weather	264
321	Danger in innocence	264
322	To live without a physician, if possible	266
323	Obscuration of the heavens	266
324	The philosophy of actors	267
325	Living and believing apart	268
326	Knowledge of our circumstances	269
327	A fable	269
328	What idealistic theories seem to disclose	270
329	The slanderers of cheerfulness	270
330	It is not enough	271
331	Right and limits	271
332	The bombastic style	271
333	Humanity	271
334	The charitable man.	272
335	That love may be felt as love	272
336	What we are capable of	272
337	"Natural"	273
338	Conscience-substitute	273
339	Transformation of duties	273
310	Appearances are against the historian	274
341	Advantage of ignorance	274
342	Unmistakable	274
313	Moral pretence	275
344	Subtlety in mistake	275
315	Our happiness is no argument either pro or con	275
346	Misogynists	276
347	School of the orator	276
318	Sense of power.	276
349	Not so very important	277
350	The safest way to promise	277
351	Misunderstood as a rule	277
352	Centre	278
353	Freedom of speech	278
354	Courage for suffering	278
355	Admirer's	279
356	Effect of happiness	279
357	Moral stinging-flies	279
358	Reasons and their groundlessness	279
359	Approving of a thing	280
360	No utilitarians	280
361	Ugly in appearance	280
362	Different hatred	280
363	People favoured by chance	281
364	Choice of one's surroundings	281
365	Vanity	281
366	The criminal's grief	282
367	Always to appear happy	282
368	Cause of much misunderstanding	282
369	To raise oneself above one's own worthlessness	283
370	To what extent the thinker loves his enemy	283
371	The evil in strength	284
372	To the credit of the connoisseur	284
373	Ambiguous blame	284
374	Value of sacrifice	284
375	Speaking too distinctly	285
376	Plenty of sleep	285
377	What fantastic ideals seem to point at	285
378	Clean hands and clean walls	286
379	Probable and improbable	286
380	Tested advice	287
381	To know one's individuality	287
382	Gardeners and gardens	287
383	The insincerity of sympathy.	288
384	Odd saints	288
385	Vain people	288
386	The pathetic and the naive	289
387	Instance of a deliberation before marriage	289
388	Villainy committed with a good conscience	289
389	Somewhat too awkward	290
390	Concealing intellect	290
391	The evil moment	290
392	Stipulation of civility	290
393	Dangerous virtues	291
394	Free from vanity	291
395	Contemplation	291
396	A-hunting -	291
397	Education	292
398	The characteristic of the choleric	292
399	Self-excuse	292
400	Moral coddling	292
401	Most dangerous loss	292
402	Another kind of toleration	293
403	Different pride	293
404	To whom we rarely do justice	293
405	Luxury	293
406	To immortalise	294
407	Against our character	294
408	Where a great deal of clemency is needed	294
409	Illness	294
410	The timid	294
411	Without hatred	295
412	Ingenious and narrow-minded	295
413	Private and public accusers	295
414	Blind of one's own free will	296
415	Remedium amoris	296
416	Where is our worst enemy?	296
417	Limit of all humility	296
418	Acting the truth	297
419	Party-courage	297
420	Shrewdness of the victim.	297
421	Showing through others	297
422	Making others happy	298
Fifth Book
423	In the great silence	299
424	For whom truth exists	301
425	We gods in exile	302
426	Colour-blindness of thinkers	303
427	The embellishment of science	304
428	Two kinds of moralists	305
429	The new passion	306
430	Another heroism	307
431	The opinions of opponents	308
432	Investigator and tempter	308
433	To see with new eyes	308
434	To make intercession	309
435	Not to perish unnoticed	310
436	Casuistical.	311
437	Privileges	311
438	Men and things	312
439	Characteristics of happiness	312
440	Never resign	312
441	Why the immediate object grows ever more distant to us	312
442	The rule	313
443	On education.	313
444	Surprise at resistance.	313
445	Wherein the noblest ale mistaken	314
446	Regulation concerning rank	314
447	Master and pupil	314
448	To honour reality	314
449	Where are the poor in intellect	315
450	The allurement of knowledge	317
451	Who is in need of a court-jester	317
452	Impatience	318
453	Moral interregnum.	318
454	Interlocution	319
455	Primary nature	319
456	A growing virtue	319
457	Final taciturnity	320
458	The great prize	321
459	Generosity of the thinker	321
460	How to use the hours of danger	321
461	Hic Rhodus, hic salta	322
462	Slow cures	323
463	On the seventh day	324
464	The donor's modesty	324
465	At a meeting.	325
466	Loss of fame	325
467	Twice patient.	325
468	Great is the province of beauty	326
469	Inhumanity of the sage	327
470	At the banquet of many	328
471	Another charity	328
472	Unwilling to justify ourselves	328
473	Where one ought to build one's house	329
474	The only means.	329
475	Growing heavy	330
476	At the harvest-festival of the intellect	330
477	Relieved from scepticism	330
478	Pass by	331
479	Love and truthfulness	331
480	Inevitable	331
481	Two Germans	332
482	To court our company	333
483	Weariness of mankind	333
484	Going our own way	334
485	Distant perspectives	335
486	Gold and hunger.	335
487	Blush of shame	335
488	Against the waste of love	336
489	Friends in need	336
490	Those paltry truths	337
491	Even therefore solitude!	337
492	South-leeward	338
493	On our own tree	338
494	Last argument of the brave	338
495	Our teachers	339
496	The evil principle	339
497	The purifying eye.	340
498	Never demand	341
499	The evil.	341
500	Against the grain	342
501	Mortal souls	342
502	One word for three different conditions	343
503	Friendship	344
504	To reconcile	344
505	The practical	344
506	The necessary desiccation of all that is good	345
507	Against the tyranny of truth	345
508	Not to take a thing pathetically	346
509	The third eye.	346
510	To escape one's virtues	347
511	The temptress	347
512	Bold to the things	347
513	Limits and beauty.	347
514	To the stronger	348
515	Enhancement of beauty.	348
516	Not to run one's demon into the neighbour	348
517	Alluring into love	349
518	Resignation	349
519	Being deceived	349
520	Eternal exequies	349
521	Exceptional vanity	350
522	Wisdom void of hearing	350
523	Parentheses	351
524	Jealousy of the lonely hearts	351
525	Effect of praise	351
526	Unwilling to be a symbolum	352
527	The obscure ones	352
528	Rare discretion	352
529	Whereby men and nations gain lustre	352
530	Digressions of the thinker	353
531	Different conceptions of art	353
532	"Love equalises"	354
533	We beginners	355
534	The small doses.	355
535	Truth needs power.	356
536	The thumb-screw	356
537	Mastery	357
538	Moral insanity of genius	357
539	Do you know what you want?	358
540	Study	359
541	How should we turn to stone	360
542	The philosopher and old age	360
543	Let us not make passion an argument in favour of truth	365
544	How philosophy is pursued in our days	366
545	But we do not believe you	368
546	Slave and idealist	368
547	The tyrants of the intellect	369
548	The triumph over power	371
549	The "flight from self"	372
550	Knowledge and beauty	373
551	About future virtues	374
552	The ideal selfishness	375
553	On round-about ways	377
554	Progress	378
555	The least important are important enough	378
556	The four noble virtues	378
557	Marching against an enemy	379
558	Not to veil one's virtues	379
559	Nothing in excess.	379
560	What is at our option?	380
561	To let also our happiness shine	381
562	The settled and the free	381
363	The delusion of the moral constitution of things	382
564	In the immediate proximity of experience.	382
565	Dignity and ignorance	383
566	A cheap mode of life	383
567	In the field	384
568	Poet and bird	384
569	To the lonely souls	385
570	Losses.	385
571	Field-dispensary of the soul	385
572	Life shall comfort us	385
573	Stripping off the skin	385
574	Never forget	386
575	We aeronauts of the intellect.	386