It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe… — Burt Young Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a… — Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Copy Share Image
“A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Sex doesn't satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
