87 quotes found
“A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.”
“From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.”
“Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.”
“Luxury is more deadly than any foe.”
“Life is more fun if you play games.”
“Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority”
“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”
“I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.”
“[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and...”
“Guilt doesn’t stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.”
“But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame our...”
“Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.”
“The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.”
“What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.”
“There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.”
“Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.”
“Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.”
“To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.”
“If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.”
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
