Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man wh… - Arthur Schopenhauer

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).

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