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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Class, People, Boredom

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Boredom, Fascination

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Blessing, Boredom, Want
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.11, Penguin UK

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Essence, Boredom, Would Be
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reality, Boredom, Needs
"Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 345, 1974.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom, Fascination, Sides

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Hands, Boredom, Misery
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.2, 谷月社

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Real, Evil, Boredom

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