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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Happiness

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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Family, Happiness
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.21, Courier Corporation

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Happiness, Exercise

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Loneliness, Sadness
"The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 341, 1882.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Happiness, Success
'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 4, sect. 283

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Children, Real

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Intelligent, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.92, Friederich Nietzsche

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Matter, Complacency

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Happiness, Smile
"The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Women, Lying

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Happiness, Success

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Destiny, Happy Times
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.198, Courier Corporation

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Goal, Doe

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Goal, Lines
Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.10, Oxford University Press

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Joy, Way
Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.95, Xist Publishing

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Wish, Desire

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Laughter, Truth
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Brother, Growing Up

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Feelings, Overcoming
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Fighting, Long
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.27, Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Together

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