Friedrich Nietzsche Happiness Quotations

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

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.