Money is 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 Schopenhaur
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood. …Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off. …It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts in to your wings, eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which is their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. – Adam Smith
To be truly rich, regardless of fortune or lack of it, a man must live by his own values. If those values are not personally meaningful, then no amount of money gained can hide the emptiness of a life without them. – J.Paul Getty.
I desire, in closing the series of introductory papers, to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also had the widest helpful influence, both personal and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others. – John Ruskin.
The most hated sort, and with greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain from money itself, and not from the natural use of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term usury, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. – Aristotle
They who devour usury shall not arise from the dead – Koran
Money is our madness, our collective madness.
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