Definitions Quote by Gertrude Stein Download Open image “How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.” — Gertrude Stein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Definitions
There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature. — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
