Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Pain, Philosophical

• Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Pleasure, Repetition

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

• Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Believe, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.52, Publishdrive

• 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 and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Animal, Agony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.29, Publishdrive

• Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Self, Ephemeral

• Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Giving, Wish

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

• In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Clothes, Numbers

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.8, Full Moon Publications

• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

• 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 advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Looks

• For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Vanity, People, Matter

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.62, Full Moon Publications

• We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and
  willingly give up life itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving Up, Men, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.253, Courier Corporation

• The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mind, Pleasure, Lasting

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

• Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Evil, World

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 348), 1974.

• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Evil, Joy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

• With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Important, Elements, May

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