There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are… — Plato Copy Share Image
“One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honor and dishonor;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
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
Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my ‘Pinhead Mood Music’. Called Al Santo Sepolcro… — Doug Bradley Copy Share Image
“According to Abhinavagupta, a yogin who is established in the understanding and experience of supreme non-dualism, sees only one reality shining in… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and… — Hiram Crespo Copy Share Image
“Really it is one truth, sometimes seen as happiness and other times as suffering. In reality, pleasure and pain are just our… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Emotions properly trained and modulated, Aristotle told his readers, are essential to being practically wise: We can experience fear, confidence, desire, anger,… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
“...Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form--that of absolute faith--is practically an impossibility; whilst… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine the simple chemical and physical forces without attributing the movement of material particles to conscious sensation." The same author… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
LIFE IS LIKE A COIN ….. PLEASURE AND PAIN ARE TWO SIDES … ONLY ONE SIDE IS VISIBLE AT A TIME …… — Sanjufago Copy Share Image
“When you associate pleasure and pain, at the same time, to a certain purpose in your mind, you sabotage yourself; you'll be… — Elena D. Calin Copy Share Image
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This mark men and women set on pleasure and pain, Prendick, is the mark of the beast upon them, the mark of… — H G Wells Copy Share Image
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“And what was the truth? Simply enough: that the world in which we are born, the world in which we spend our… — Joseph Duncan Copy Share Image
“There is a god in whom I do not believe Yet to this god my love stretches, This god whom I do… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
LOVE: We think about it, Sing about it, Dream about it &Loose sleep worrying about it. When we dont know we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Love? we think about it, sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worring about it, when we dont have it we… — Ana Copy Share Image
“We stood, separated by space, certainly, in identical conditions of pleasant uncertainty and anticipation, and we both held our hearts in our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
