Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Glück ist die nachträgliche Erfüllung eines prähistorischen Wunsches. Darum macht Reichtum so wenig glücklich; Geld ist kein Kinderwunsch gewesen.

Sigmund Freud

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Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Definition

Language

German

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Psychologist Writer

From

Austria Europe

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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.

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Another quote from the 1890s

In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence.

Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Status games Consumerism

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Thorstein Veblen
Source
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Genre
Sociology Economic literature
Language
English
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 3.

Another quote about Happiness

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

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Topic
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
Authentication Score 2
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

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs

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Men and women
Speaker
Madame Venus

Author

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Source
Venus in Furs
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1870 1870s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus im Pelz [Venus in Furs]. Stuttgart, 1870.

Current Citation

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold. Venus in Furs, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2000.

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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus

The Fall

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Charm Persuasion

Author

Albert Camus
Source
The Fall
Medium
Novel
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Definition
Language
French
Time
1956 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Camus, Albert. La Chute [The Fall]. Editions Gallimard, 1956.