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The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")

Chapter 1: THE JOYFUL WISDOM
By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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A series of aphorisms, essays, and poems blends spirited wit with reflective seriousness to chart a reawakening of life-affirming insight after prolonged intellectual or spiritual hardship. The writing employs paradox, song, and pointed maxims to question metaphysical and moral certainties, urge acceptance of change and suffering, and celebrate creativity, affirmation, and freedom of perspective. Tone shifts between playful revelry and sober meditation, inviting readers to reevaluate values, embrace earthly existence, and adopt an experimental, joyous stance toward knowledge, art, and living.

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Title: The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Editor: Oscar Levy

Translator: Paul V. Cohn

Thomas Common

Maude Dominica Petre

Release date: August 23, 2016 [eBook #52881]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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THE COMPLETE WORKS
OF
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The First Complete and Authorised English Translation
EDITED BY
Dr OSCAR LEVY
VOLUME TEN

THE JOYFUL WISDOM

("LA GAYA SCIENZA")
Of the First Edition of
One Thousand Five Hundred
Copies this is
No.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
THE
JOYFUL WISDOM
("LA GAYA SCIENZA")
TRANSLATED BY
THOMAS COMMON
WITH POETRY RENDERED BY
PAUL V. COHN
AND
MAUDE D. PETRE
I stay to mine house confined,
Nor graft my wits on alien stock;
And mock at every master mind
That never at itself could mock.
T. N. FOULIS
13 & 15 FREDERICK STREET
EDINBURGH: & LONDON
1910
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Printed at The Darien Press, Edinburgh.