Pleasure - Quotes
The teacher`s highest art is to awaken his pupil to the pleasure of creation and recognition.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
Anyone who has got any pleasure at all from living should try to put something back.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?
Of my sad heart - you're the pleasure,
You're my soul's fondest desire -
You're my good cheer without measure
You're the Godsend I require...
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.