Herbert Spencer Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

  Herbert Spencer

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

• Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

  Herbert Spencer

  Feelings, Doe, Culture

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works”

• Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

  Herbert Spencer

  Pain, Tides, Pleasure

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.79, VM eBooks

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