Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Thus one finds much more happiness in the world than sad eyes see, if one only reckons rightly, and does not forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Life no argument. - We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man who wishes nothing more than daily to lose some reassuring belief, who seeks and finds his happiness in this daily… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Hyperboreans were a mythical people beyond the Rhipaean mountains, in the far North. They enjoyed unbroken happiness and perpetual youth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
