Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Joy

• The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crush, Spiritual, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.389, Penguin

• The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Joy, Excess

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.230, Cambridge University Press

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

• This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Thinking, Giving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Laughter, Truth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

• One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Giving, Joy

• A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Joy, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.77, Courier Corporation

• Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Joy, Suffering

• Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Joy, Suffering

• Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Hope, Strong

  "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation".

• Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Joy, Dissipation

• A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religious, Pride

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Destiny, Happy Times

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.198, Courier Corporation

• Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Powerful, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.51, Friederich Nietzsche

• 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

  Happiness, Joy, Way

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.95, Xist Publishing

• Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sympathy, Joy, Feelings

• Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Upset Stomach, Joy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.195, Penguin

• Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Joy, Good Man

• You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Heart, Goal

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.36, Booklassic

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Three, Elements

  "The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 801, Notebook W II 1. KGW VIII, 2.57-8, KSA 12.393-4, Fall 1888.

• Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Joy, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.37, e-artnow

• Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Suffering, Paper

• This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Dust, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

• What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Animal

• Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Want, Eternity

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