Major Works

• Untimely Meditations

  - Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, 1876. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Untimely Meditations. Edited by Daniel Breazeale. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 1997.
  Excerpt: “I. David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer Public opinion in Germany seems almost to forbid discussion of the evil and perilous consequences of a war, and especially of one that has ended victoriously: there is thus all the more ready an… More

Other Works

• On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

  - "Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben," 1874. Reprinted in Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, 1876. Recommended Translation: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life, trans. Peter Preuss, Hackett, 1980.
  Excerpt: “Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.” These are Goethe’s words with which, as with a boldly expressed ceterum censeo, we may begin our consideration of the… More