Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

People will always choose more money over more sex.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

I already own more than any human being needs.

I didn't think about money or cars or anything like that.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.