Happiness Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The forumula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye -…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is a comfort to me to know that above the steam and filth of human lowlands there is a higher, brighter…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Have you ever said Yes to a single joy? O my friends, then you have said Yes too to all woe. All…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ages of happiness. - An age of happiness is quite impossible, because men want only to desire it but not to have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche