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Pleasure Quotes by Daniel Gilbert
- When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of…
- The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
- The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
More Pleasure Quotes
- 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
- 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
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- 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
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker