The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Der allgemeinste Ueberblid zeigt uns, als die beiden Feinde des menschlichen Gluckes, den Schmerz und die Langweile.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What a Man Is

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Topic

Obstacles to happiness Happiness

Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

Source

What a Man Is Parerga and Paralipomena

Language

German

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Bon Dem, was Einer ist [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man is]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

Current Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Another quote from the 1850s

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Montaigne; or, the Skeptic

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
Medium
Essay
Language
English
Time
1850 1850s 19th century
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic." Representative Men. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic (1850)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Another quote about Happiness

He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Happiness Contentment Being carefree

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James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist
Medium
Novel Magazine
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 4.

Another quote originally in German

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

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Conscience

Author

Karl Barth
Language
German
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
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Barth, Karl. "The Righteousness of God." Das Wort Gottes und die Theologie [The Word of God and Theology]. Mchn., Kaiser, 1924. Originally a lecture called "The Righteousness of God" delivered 16 Jan. 1916 in City Church, Aarau, Switzerland.