Horace Mann Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

  Horace Mann

  Truth, Errors, Triumph

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.27

• We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

  Horace Mann

  Pleasure

• The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

  Horace Mann

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.209

• Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

  Horace Mann

  Pain, Nerves, Thrill

  Horace Mann (1859). “Lectures on Various Subjects”, p.43

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