Top 54 Nietzsche Happiness Quotes
#1. Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye - little makes up the quality of the best happiness. Soft!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. 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
#7. Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. But I need solitude
which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy
ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. The danger in happiness - Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. to have to combat one's instincts - that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. Nietzsche believed that if Pity were to become the core of ethics, misery would become contagious and happiness an object of suspicion
Arundhati Roy
#24. You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young - so have patience with it!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. 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
#35. If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly," then they need to search.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. Thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. 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
#42. They all want to get to the throne: this is their madness - as if happiness were sitting on the throne! Often it is mud that sits on the throne - and often the throne also sits on mud.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. Thus one finds much more happiness in the world than sad eyes see, if one only reckons rightly, and does not forget all those moments of comfort in which every day is rich, even in the most harried of human lives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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