Behinds Quote by Anonymous

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace…

— Anonymous

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer…

— Stephanie Mills

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us,…

— Edmund Burke

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

— Plato

Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

“When you’re honest, what compares with the gorgeous thrill of sex? What brings you the same sense of wonder, pleasure, and fulfilment? I can’t…

— Fiona Thrust

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its…

— Thomas Aquinas

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that has always…

— Lisa Joy

“I think we’ve lost our awareness of what “wonder” really means: the more we content ourselves with the narrow confines of our existence, the…

— James Runcie

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

— Euripides