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Satisfaction Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely…
- That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are…
- Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
- Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is…
- Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
- Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
- A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in…
- Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
- What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and…
- It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires…
- The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the…
More Satisfaction Quotes
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the… — Albert Bandura
- Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else… — Mario Batali
- Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always… — Charles Baudelaire
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases… — Zygmunt Bauman
- Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be… — Arnold Bennett
- If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of… — Mortimer Adler
- Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought… — Ambrose Bierce
- There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the… — Mary J. Blige
- Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the… — Daniel Boone
- Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. — Bertolt Brecht