“Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.”

Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 320
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims

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German philosopher 1788–1860

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