Joy Quote by Spinoza

“The joy made him feel like a drunken man. To teach and exhort and explain to his people--and to have them understand. That was…

— Carson McCullers

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

“Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Who never wanted, ― maddest joy Remains to him unknown ; The banquet of abstemiousness Surpasses that of wine. Within its hope, though yet…

— Emily Dickinson

“ Charles Baudelaire: Get Drunk One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness that is…

— Edmund Burke

“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone, and not…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A noble mind finds its purest joy in the accomplishment of its duty, and to that willingly sacrifices its inclination.”

— Johann David Wyss

“I bid you welcome to a new Utopia where men may be free of the so-called moral subjugations and constraints, and where for a…

— Emery Lee

“If we want a joyous life, we must think joyous thoughts. Whatever we send out mentally or verbally will come back to us in…

— Louise L. Hay