Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Happiness comes from a sense of empowerment and overcoming challenges.
This quote by Friedrich Nietzsche suggests that true happiness is derived from the feeling of gaining power over one's circumstances and overcoming obstacles. It implies that when we successfully confront and navigate the difficulties in life, our sense of well-being and joy increases as we recognize our own strength and resilience.
Themes
HappinessPowerFeelingOvercomingResistance
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about resilience, you could use this quote to illustrate the connection between overcoming challenges and achieving happiness.
More from Friedrich Nietzsche
All quotes βThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Similar quotes
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
Lord ByronRead
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Henry FieldingRead
Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone.
Satoru IwataRead
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Helen KellerRead
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
George EliotRead
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette DavisRead