The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there is no… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
