Culture Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

— Martial

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

— William Hazlitt

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

— Bertrand Russell

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

— Aldous Huxley

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as…

— Epicurus

[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as…

— Lionel Tiger

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We…

— Dan Levy

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure…

— Anonymous

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

— Philip Massinger