4 Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Happiness

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes on happiness

54. 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.

81. The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

84. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

123. 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.