Mass Quote by George Santayana

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be…

— Samuel Johnson

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

— David Brainerd

“How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature? And in a view to pleasure, what comparison between the unbought satisfaction of conversation,…

— David Hume

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with…

— Pascal Bruckner

“The positive sum of pleasures in a modern man's life is undoubtedly greater than was to be found in more primitive communities, but the…

— Bertrand Russell

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

— Tim Jackson

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater…

— Mother Teresa

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of…

— Henry David Thoreau

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it…

— Thomas Pogge

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

— Raoul Vaneigem

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less…

— Francis Atterbury