7 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Happiness

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes on happiness

36. The man who is guided by concepts and abstractions only succeeds by such means in warding off misfortune, without ever gaining any happiness for himself from these abstractions. And while he aims for the greatest possible freedom from pain, the intuitive man, standing in the midst of a culture, already reaps from his intuition a harvest of continually inflowing illumination, cheer, and redemption - in addition to obtaining a defense against misfortune. To be sure, he suffers more intensely, when he suffers; he even suffers more frequently, since he does not understand how to learn from experience and keeps falling over and over again into the same ditch.

43. The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

46. The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

67. Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

111. Ich wurde nur an einen Gott glauben, der zu tanzen verstunde.

172. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, 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.

198. The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty - all belonging to the oldest festal joys.