Quotes About Pleasure

Montaignes ware plezier is het zoeken, niet het vinden. Hij is niet een van die filosofen die op zoek zijn naar de steen der wijzen, naar een nuttige formule. Hij wil dogma noch leer en is permanent op zijn hoede voor starre beweringen: 'Niets boud beweren, niets lichtvaardig ontkennen.

Diletante en el más bello sentido de la palabra, al que en el juego sólo en el juego, el diletto, le causa alegría.

Life is a luxury, isn't it? there's no use in it--but how delightful!

But Julia thought it would be a much better idea if they went to see Mr Dan Langham in 'On Your Toes!' at the New Hippodrome, so they went there instead and had a nice time instead of a nasty one.

Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that.

Unless everything is tidy and pleasant and comfortable all about one, people cannot even begin to enjoy life. I cannot endure messes.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

You like my kisses - and I like kissing you. Why deny ourselves such innocent pleasure?

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

You are happy when you can enjoy the little things around you.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of the truth, sounding so right and plausible that--if he is any kind of liar at all--he begins, himself, to believe it. It was the pleasure that a maker of golems takes as the force of his words, the rhythm and accuracy of his alphabetical spells, blow life into the cold clay nostrils, and the great stony hand unclenches and reaches for his own.