Arthur Schopenhauer

8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)

• Health so outweighs every other blessing that a healthy beggar is happier than a sick king (opens korrents.com)

  “Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king.”

  around 1851

• Cheerfulness is the direct currency of happiness, and securing it should be the supreme aim of the pursuit of happiness (opens korrents.com)

  “Cheerfulness is a direct and immediate gain,—the very coin, as it were, of happiness, and not, like all else, merely a cheque upon the bank; for it alone makes us immediately happy in the present moment, and that is…”

  around 1851

• The more a person has within themselves, the less they want from other people (opens korrents.com)

  “For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him.”

  around 1851