Max Stirner, 99-103; quoted, 73 Montaigne, quoted, 168 Music, 16, 161 Musset, 49 Mysticism, in knowledge, 38-40; in morals, 123 Nietzsche, 114-143 Optimism, egotistical, 25, 111, 114, 116, 118, 119 Passion, not naturally egotistical, 101; may become so, 95, 98; dull in egotists, 165, 166 Paulsen, 42 Perception, terminates in things not in ideas, 19 Pessimism, inherits disregard of intrinsic values, 109; reacts against optimism, 25, 111; is arbitrary, 116 Pier Gynt, typical egotist, 13, 14 Plato, his idealism contrasted with the German, 16; his oppressive politics, 81; on inspiration, 141 Postulates of practical reason, equivocal, 58-64 Power, divers meanings of the word, 125-127 Preservation, no law of nature, 115 Progress, when illusory, 17; when real, 112 Protestantism, 21-31, 151 Religion in German philosophy, 7, 13, 75, 76, 82, 83 Rome and German genius, 150 Schopenhauer, 108-122 Selfishness, distinguished from egotism, 95, 97, 100-102, 118 Society, its alleged consciousness, 17, 18; a "spook," 99 Socrates, 146 Spinoza, religious feeling transferred to nature, 24; his mysticism in ethics, 123 Spirit, its meanings, 37; its mystic unity, 38 State, the absolute, an idol, 96-98 Substance, egotistical use of the term, 17, 92 Superman, 136-143 Tender minds, how attracted to German philosophy, 24 Transcendentalism, 32-42 Truth, a figment of the will, 28; made in Germany, 88; less valuable than illusion, 14, 128-130; not the strong point of philosophies, 154 Understanding, hostility of Hegel to the, 90, 91 Wagner, 136, 150 War, a boon, 96; how it should be started, 79; is to rage for two hundred years, 115 Wilhelm Meister, 44 Will, used metaphorically, 36, 114; should be disinterested, 67; may be fulfilled in defeat, 66, 67; is unstable and indeterminate, 156-158; may be denied, 119, 120 Winkelmann, 140, note