Part 13

13 This undoubtedly refers to Nietzsche’s only disciple and friend, Peter Gast—Tr.

14 My “Genealogy of Morals” contains the best exposition of the antithesis “noble morality” and “Christian morality”; a more decisive turning point in the history of religious and moral science does not perhaps exist. This book, which is a touchstone by which I can discover who are my peers, rejoices in being accessible only to the most elevated and most severe minds: the others have not the ears to hear me. One must have one’s passion in things, wherein no one has passion nowadays.

15 An allusion to Schiller’s poem: “Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais.”—Tr.

16 What Schiller said of Goethe.—Tr.

17 See note on page 37.

18 It should be noted that the German Catholic party is called the Ultramontane Party. The river which can thus flow over mountains is Catholicism, towards which Nietzsche thought Wagner’s art to be tending.—Tr.