Pleasure Quotes - Page 33

• What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  God, Powerful, Omnipotence

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• No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Communication, Delight, Absolutes

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• I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.

  James Madison

  Religious, Thinking, Blessing

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.97

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• The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.

  James W. Prescott

  Christian, Religious, Children

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• If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you're making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that's very necessary.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, Purpose, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

  Cillian Murphy

  Years, Luck, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of enjoyable. Sondheim's melodies and lyrics are a real pleasure to tromp around in, it's really beautiful stuff.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Real, Stuff

  Interview with Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. January 23, 2008.

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• India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected. That's part of the reason why people who like it tend to love it.

  Wes Anderson

  Moving, People, Looks

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2007.

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• I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Book, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.297, Stanford University Press

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• Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Smart

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mean, Differences, World

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Greatness, Willpower

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Iron, Alliances

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.838, Stanford University Press

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• The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reading, Hands, People

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• The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Self, Mind

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Discovery

  "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

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• It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beauty, Simple, Imagination

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Men, Equality

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

  Marquis de Sade

  Art, Doubt, Might

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Imagination, Whim

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

  Marquis de Sade

  Truth, Honesty, Light

  Marquis de Sade (2013). “120 Days of Sodom”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

  Marquis de Sade

  Ideas, Evil, Soul

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
  Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure,
  The heart luxuriates with indifferent things,
  Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones,
  And on the vacant air.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Heart

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.143

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• If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Sleep, Cat

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wealth, Acquire

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

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