Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
Schopenhauer catches something that simple greed-warnings miss: accumulation doesn't merely fail to satisfy, it *actively* corrupts satisfaction itself. Each acquisition rewires your baseline expectations upward, so the comfort that once felt luxurious becomes invisible. A person who buys their first expensive watch feels transformed; a collector with fifty watches experiences each new acquisition as a small disappointment. The trap isn't that money can't buy happiness—it's that money reshapes what you need in order to feel happy at all.
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh“It's not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they...”
Will Rogers