Gratifications Quotes

19 quotes by 16 authors

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the… — Thomas Jefferson
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Michel de Montaigne
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none — David Brainerd
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral… — Martin Seligman
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper… — Hannah More
At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to explore her secret… — Henry Kett
We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't have, for gratifications… — Philip Wollen
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. — Moliere
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and… — Richard Steele
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their… — Alexis de Tocqueville
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of… — Bill Bryson
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy… — Blaise Pascal
There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy… — Samuel Johnson

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