Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Laughter

• 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.

• 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

• Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Mean, Delight

• And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Dance, Laughter

• One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Atheism, Doe

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

• Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Laughter, Men

• I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Believe, Fall

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
  Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Laughter, Believe

• Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Philosophical, Wrath

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.422, Modern Library

• He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Laughing, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.22, Friedrich Nietzsche

• This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

• For a significant man
  woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Men, Iron

• Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Wrath, Spirit

• You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Men, Secret

• A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Animal, Men

• Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Humility, Laughing

• In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Evil, Together

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.210, Penguin

• What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Laughing, Doe

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