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
“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
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
“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
The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“Love is such a complicated and contradictory emotion: pleasure and pain, selfish and selfless, trust and deceit. The very act of falling… — Sean Kernan 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
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
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — Jane Austen 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
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
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
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced… — Owen Barfield 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“He can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and longing, and he can… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“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
“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
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
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg 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
