Care Quote by Thomas a Kempis

“Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and... absolutely nothing else. And through the development of this capacity, man may…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is good reason, that man consisting of two parts, the soul and body, the body only should not take up all, but the…

— Lancelot Andrewes

If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection.…

— Francis Levy

Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly…

— Richard Baxter

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

— Dante Alighieri

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

— Anonymous

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

— Joseph Addison

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that…

— Blaise Pascal

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as…

— Epicurus