Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Pleasure

• What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Night, Yesterday

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

• Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Pleasure, Said

• Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Hate, Rights

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

• Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Greatness, Men

• The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Noble Man

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

• He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Delight, Language

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.243, U of Nebraska Press

• He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Eye, Long

• How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Errors, Sound, Would Be

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.21, Friedrich Nietzsche

• We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  May, Way, Tradition

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.61, Courier Corporation

• An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Important, Ethics, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.61, Courier Corporation

• The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Cynical, Causes

• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Touching

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

• But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, What If

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Mean, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Self, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.139, Courier Corporation

• Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Rising Up

• Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Pain, Profound

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.553, Modern Library

• Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Innocence, Pleasure

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

• Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Vanity, Light

• If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Determination, Men, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

• However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Thinking, Plight

• Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Littles, Pity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.65, Courier Corporation

• 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

  Opposites, Transformation, Nonsense

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

• Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Men, Effort

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.94, Modern Library

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