Beyond Good and Evil
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SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman--what then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women--that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman? Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won; and at present ever…
Details
- AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
- SourceProject Gutenberg #4363
- Length64,289 words · 4h 17m of reading
- Chapters12
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-09-06
Contents
12 chapters
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- 01PREFACE
- 02CHAPTER I. PREJUDICES OF PHILOSOPHERS
- 03CHAPTER II. THE FREE SPIRIT
- 04CHAPTER III. THE RELIGIOUS MOOD
- 05CHAPTER IV. APOPHTHEGMS AND INTERLUDES
- 06CHAPTER V. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MORALS
- 07CHAPTER VI. WE SCHOLARS
- 08CHAPTER VII. OUR VIRTUES
- 09SEVEN APOPHTHEGMS FOR WOMEN
- 10CHAPTER VIII. PEOPLES AND COUNTRIES
- 11CHAPTER IX. WHAT IS NOBLE?
- 12By F W Nietzsche
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