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Pleasure Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
- Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
- You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.
- The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
- We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that…
- Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the…
- I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish…
- Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
- God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
- Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
- Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.
- I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily
- We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if…
- I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
- Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his…
- Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
- Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes…
- You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up…
- A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It…
- Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the…
- As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he…
- A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
- The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite,…
- The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning…
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- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac