Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Mixture of pleasure and pain,” he muttered. “Always does the trick.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. — Yanni Copy Share Image
“Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.” — Daniel Levin Copy Share Image
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. — Lisa Kleypas 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick… — Anton Szandor LA Vey Copy Share Image
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a sadist. You've brought me to my… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
Love? We think about it sometimes, always sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it. When we don't have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whatever variety evolution brings forth... Every new dimension of world-response...means another modality for God's trying out his hidden essence and discovering himself… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“I used to imagine life divided into separate compartments, consisting, for example, of such dual abstractions as pleasure and pain, love and… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“As high as the fire in me burns, Evie, I will stoke it in you." "Sebastian..."She strained a little, and he pinned… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The value of experience, real or imagined, is that is shows us how to - or how NOT to - live. In… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“In the hearts of fans everywhere, his protectiveness is where his true appeal lies. Edward feels both pleasure and pain in Bella's… — Laura L. Enright Copy Share Image
“Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Thus we see, that the mind can undergo many changes, and can pass sometimes to a state of greater perfection, sometimes to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
