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Pleasure Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
- You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through…
- People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness…
- Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable…
- We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.
- Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.
- Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause…
- People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity…
- Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where…
- Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,…
- Happiness is pleasure without regret
- The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.
More Pleasure Quotes
- 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