Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I believe, that creating is a joyful activity as well as a meaningful suffer, and thus, it is an integral part of the human…

— Gabor Gürtler

“[T]his need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating,…

— Joseph Conrad

“On the other hand, he was also enjoying the ecstasy of an idea, not daring just yet to envision its complications, dangers, and vicious…

— Marcus Zusak

“[He] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets…

— Daniel Menaker

“Reason is a tool of weaklings who are afraid to be naked in the face of a cruel and conflictual reality and who therefore…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”

— Claire Holden Rothman