Quotes About Pleasure

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure; for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Ha, ha, ha: love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea.

In July 2000 a court in Kalamazoo, Michigan, gave an unusually lenient sentence to José Rodriguez, a member of a street gang called the Latin Kings who had been found guilty of firebombing. According to a report in the Holland Sentinel, a local newspaper, the defendant's counsel 'noted that Rodriguez was a unique person because he reads the encyclopedia and dictionary for pleasure'.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down. He is the coffee, hot, steaming, filtered. You have to add stuff to it to make it taste good. Grinds your stomach, makes you jittery, wired, and tense. Bad trip, keeps you up, burns you out. Coffee and gin don't mix, never do, everybody keeps trying and trying to make it taste good.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

One should not judge pleasure according to the senses. One should judge it according to truth. . . . The power to renounce gives one more power than to possess things." ? Henry Suso, Henry Suso: The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons

Whoso does not play at dice will not lose property, but still people play at dice. There is in that a certain delight and destruction of the present.

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.

The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.

the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.

A change now began to take place in his work which gave him enormous pleasure. In the midst of his work moments came to him when he forgot what he was doing and began to feel light, and in those moments his swath came out as even and good as Titus's. But as soon as he remembered what he was doing and starting trying to do better, he at once felt how hard the work was and the swath came out badly.

Why, of course," objected Stepan Arkadyevitch. "But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. Come, this is life! How splendid it is! This is how I should like to live!

I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon as I recapture the thread of my former reverie I find it impossible to go on with it and, most astonishing of all, my imaginings no longer afford me any pleasure.

El fin de la civilización consiste en convertir todas las cosas en un placer.

But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.

On the contrary one must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive, that's not my fault, so I must live out my live the best I can, without hurting others.

It is necessary that men, governed by their own feelings, find sensual delight in virtue.

Life is everything. Life is God. Everything is in flux and movement, and this movement is God. And while there is life there is pleasure in being conscious of the Godhead. To love life is to love God. The hardest and the most blessed thing is to love this life even in suffering, innocent suffering.