Doe Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Englishmen Happiness Men Strive
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy. — Hermann Hesse 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… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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