Amusement Quote by Oswald Spengler

“It is the wretched way people have of setting up a claim to happiness that ruins everything in this world. A man will make…

— Johann Heinrich Merck

“[…] we humans, as long as we live, are generally incapable of freeing ourselves from a certain ardent searching and longing, and should not…

— Robert Walser

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life…

— Samuel Johnson

“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount…

— Bertrand Russell

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the…

— Meher Baba

“The crucial importance of human expectations has far-reaching implications for understanding the history of happiness. If happiness depended only on objective conditions such as…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other…

— C.S. Lewis

“Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.”

— Bertrand Russell

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

— Bertrand Russell

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death [the Stoics'] is quite…

— Anton Chekhov