Pleasure Quote by Anonymous

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old…

— Frederick The Great

The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices...…

— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

— Matthew Arnold

“In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem…

— Russell Kirk

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

— Thomas Hobbes

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

— Richard Steele

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

— Marcel Proust

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.

— Leo Tolstoy

You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there…

— Eugene Delacroix

“and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

— Leonardo da Vinci