Quotes About Pleasure

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.

y del placer de los bellos conocimientos que me proponía adquirir; pues para mi era como si ya los poseyese, o mejor dicho, era más todavía, porque el gusto de aprender entraba por mucho en mi felicidad. Es

Hay más: el verdadero placer no se describe; sólo se siente, y tanto más cuanto menos puede describirse, porque no resulta de un conjunto de hechos sino de un estado permanente.

He visto que para obrar el bien con placer era preciso que actuase libremente, sin coacción, y que para privarme de toda la dulzura de una buena obra bastaba con que se convirtiera en un deber para mí.

Bir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmeye çal??m?yorum; art?k zaman? geçti. Asl?nda bu denli çok bilginin, yaÅŸam?n mutluluÄŸuna yard?m ettiÄŸini hiç görmedim; ama kendime, hiçbir güçlük duymadan zevk alaca??m ve bana y?k?mlar?m? unutturacak tatl? ve s?radan eÄŸlenceler ar?yorum.

The mind has its needs, as does the body. The needs of the latter are the foundations of society; the needs of the former make it pleasant.

We are ever looking forward or backward, ruminating on what is past, and can return no more, or anticipating the future, which may never arrive; there is nothing solid to which the heart can attach itself, neither have we here below any pleasures that are lasting.

In the midst of so much philosophy, humanity, and civilization, and of such sublime codes of morality, we have nothing to show for ourselves but a frivolous and deceitful exterior, honor without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness.

This collection of scattered thoughts and observations has little order or continuity; it was begun to give pleasure to a good mother who thinks for herself.

Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert. There is always a person at the table...No, really, I couldn't...Everyone who is pressing a fork into that first tender layer looks at the person who declined the plate, and they all think, That person is better than I am. That person has discipline. But that isn't a person with discipline, that is a person who has completely lost touch with joy.

spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour

This rat was not just eating the sugar. He was bathing in it, wallowing in it, positively luxuriating in it, his flickering tail hanging over the side of the bowl, flinging sugar across the table.

I like such kisses. They fill the mouth and leave the body free. To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

Will you do me the honour of lunching with me on Wednesday?" "With pleasure." I had as much desire to eat with him as I had to hang myself.

Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future; this is to have achieved some measure of success in living.