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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.

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Sad, Money

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mean, People, Honor
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Inward, Honour, Conscience
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Arthur Schopenhauer
Money, Philosophical, Winning
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Long, Waiting, Long Life
"Willen in der Natur". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, chapter 'Einleitung', 1836.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Ignorance, Riches, Found

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Plato, Writing, Development
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.417, Courier Corporation

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Struggle, Majority, Lasts

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Men, Desire

When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Believe, Men, Wish

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

Arthur Schopenhauer
Doe, Our Actions, Reason
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.35, Full Moon Publications

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

Arthur Schopenhauer
Marriage, Wedding, Mean

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Taken, Heart, Tears
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.46, 谷月社

Human life must be some form of mistake.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Mistake, Form

My body and my will are one.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Body
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.96, 谷月社

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Wisdom, Philosophical, Heart

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Essence, Two

If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Law, Feelings, Fusion

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Vision, Tools, Looks
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Giving, Pessimism, Reason
Arthur, Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.55, Aegitas

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Friendship, Best Friend, Networking

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Children, Genius, Way
"The World as Will and Representation". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (Bd. 2, § 3.31, p. 451), 1819.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Errors, Forever, Desire
1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Needs, Satisfaction, Abstract
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.33, Cosimo Classics

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