Pleasure Quotes - Page 30
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
Third Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India, February 14, 1971.
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
Jeremy Bentham (1996). “The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.100, Clarendon Press
Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.31, Macmillan
J. D. Salinger (2016). “J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.77, Melville House
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.79, VM eBooks
Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.79, Routledge
There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.
Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”
Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi
Edmund Spenser (1873). “The Faerie queene (continued)”, p.41
If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?
Colin Beavan (2011). “No Impact Man: Saving the planet one family at a time”, p.100, Hachette UK