I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then?… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our… — Dipa Ma Copy Share Image
Our modern world-view tragically misperceives and wrongly defines what it is to be human. We are conditioned by our society to believe… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“What's more, I was free to do anything that did not hurt others that strengthened me and helped me in the one… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I've been taking it easy on you, kid, can tell you're having fun. But it's all sensation to you so far. I… — Anne Thomas Copy Share Image
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“I want to mark him permanently, brand him as mine. I grab my ankles to keep from grabbing him, digging my short,… — Cynthia Sax Copy Share Image
For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It’s a pleasure to put myself against him and when I… — John Terry Copy Share Image
He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone----the pleasure is in the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten,… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Treasure you're my pleasure an endownment of nature we will continually nuture for the future to measure our leisure that pressure cannot… — Bosh Sam Copy Share Image
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
