Life Quote by Baron d'Holbach

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Man did not give himself the taste for the infinite and the love of what is immortal. These sublime instincts are not born of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without…

— Thomas Merton

“In every man's life there is something he feels driven to do, something that pricks him at the core of his soul so long…

— Robert Silverberg

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the…

— Hannah More

“The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount…

— Bertrand Russell

“If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but to pursue…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…

— Fernando Pessoa

“By degrees, however, he fashioned for himself out of this tendency a philosophy that was actually serviceable to life. He gained strength through familiarity…

— Hermann Hesse

“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and…

— Noah Levine

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed…

— Robert South