87 quotes found
“I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.”
“Guilt doesnt stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.”
“Life's a climb. But the view is great.”
“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...”
“There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves;”
“Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to infl...”
“Enjoy this moment because it may not come again.”
“A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.”
“A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.”
“After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.”
“Danger and delight grow on one stalk .”
“Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.”
“Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.”
“The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)”
“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.”
“We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.”
“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.”
“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
“To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.”
“There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.”
