Quote of Arthur Schopenhauer - The two enemies of human happiness...
Biography - Arthur Schopenhauer:
German philosopher.
Born: 1788 - Died: 1860
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1788 - Died: 1860
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
See also...
Quotes about happiness:
Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Quotes for: enemy
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Quotes for: pain
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.
I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer also said...
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