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Quotation from The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
“All satisfaction, or what is commonly called happiness, is always really and essentially only _negative_, and never positive”
The World as Will and Representation, Fourth Book, §58, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1883-1886)
The thesis that pleasure is only the cessation of a want.
Citation: "All satisfaction, or what is commonly called happiness, is always really and essentially only _negative_, and never positive" — Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Fourth Book, §58, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1883-1886). (id the-world-as-will-and-representation-q11)
Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.
