Quotes About Pleasure

If all you seek from something is pleasure, you'll never find it. All you will feel is noia [existential boredom], often disgust. To feel pleasure in any act or activity, you have to pursue some end other than pleasure.

Utilitarianism is a type of hedonism.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure." —GIACOMO LEOPARDI, ITALIAN POET AND PHILOSOPHER (1798–1837), PESSIMIST

Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.

Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.

I like chicken.

I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was standing, finally, in the place where everything begins: the tree in the garden, the tree of knowledge that, as I learned long ago, is something divided, something that because growth occurs only through the medium of time, brings both pleasure and, finally, sorrow.

beauty and pleasure are at the center of teaching. For the best teacher is the one who wants you to find meaning in the things that have given him pleasure, too, so that the appreciation of their beauty will outlive him. In this way—because it arises from an acceptance of the inevitability of death—good teaching is like good parenting.

Can that be called perfect knowledge . . . If one is not released while enjoying the pleasures of sense? 2 sings Saraha, one of the Buddhist masters who lived sometime between the second and seventh centuries.

A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his pleasure, and soon you will not be able to keep him from it.

On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Sur ce point comme sur quelques autres, Julia a raison : ne jamais investir dans la promesse du plaisir. Tout de suite ou pas du tout.

Il sapere è innanzitutto carnale. Le nostre orecchie e i nostri occhi lo captano, la nostra bocca lo trasmette. Certo, ci viene dai libri, ma i libri escono da noi. Fa rumore, un pensiero, e il piacere di leggere è un retaggio del bisogno di dire.

Quel che noi leggiamo, lo taciamo. Il piacere del libro letto lo teniamo spesso gelosamente segreto. Sia perchè non vi vediamo materia di conversazione, sia perchè prima di poterne dire una parola dobbiamo lasciar fare al tempo la sua splendida opera di distillazione.

Abbioccarmi in treno, al cinema, a teatro o mentre leggo è una voluttà cui non rinuncio mai.

Un bel sonno dal respiro regolare. No, no, non svegliatelo, non c'è niente di meglio di una bella dormita dopo una ninnananna, anzi, è il primo piacere nell'ordine della lettura.

Un pensamiento hace ruido, y el placer de leer es una herencia de la necesidad de decir.

Mai investire nella promessa del piacere. Subito o mai.

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

Mais nous relisons surtout gratuitement, pour le plaisir de la répétition, la joie des retrouvailles, la mise à l'épreuve de l'intimité.

When we live to glorify God and not ourselves, we are answering the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us. It is in this kind of life alone that true and lasting joy, satisfaction, contentment, and pleasure are found. HOW

Intentionally rude and vulgar, he took pleasure in the discomfort of others.

I don't need to try it. I tried it once, and I liked it very much. - Chiara

Gottfried Leibniz wrote that music's pleasure consisted of "unconscious counting" or an "arithmetical exercise of which we are unaware.