Arthur Schopenhauer on Happiness
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, catalogued under happiness, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #170403: "Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money."
Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #118194: "The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending."
5 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer on Happiness
"Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money."
"The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending."
"::brief is the pain, unending is the joy."
"What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them."
"The animals are much more content with mere existence than we are; the plants are wholly so; and man is so according to how dull and insensitive he is. The animal’s life consequently contains less suffering but also less pleasure than the human’s, the direct reason being that on the one hand it is free from care and anxiety and the torments that attend them, but on the other is without hope and therefore has no share in that anticipation of a happy future which, together with the enchanting products of the imagination which accompany it, is the source of most of our greatest joys and pleasures. The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate."