Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Happiness
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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
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Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
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Arthur Schopenhauer
- Born: February 22, 1788
- Died: September 21, 1860
- Occupation: Philosopher
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