Infinite Quote by Henry James Download Open image “Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infinite Innocent Observation Pleasure
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.” — Emile Peynaud Copy Share Image
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good… — Harry Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
