221.Quotes On Pleasure:Present:Reason-Part 1

"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.." -Ambrose Bierce-

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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.".-Bertrand Russell-

"By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.".-Charles Horton Cooley

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"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.".-Francis Bacon-

"The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true;he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.".-Henry Louis Mencken-

"Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.".-Karl Kraus-

"There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.".-Lord George Byron-

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?".-Oscar Wilde-

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"A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;it is the finest of the fine arts.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.".-Voltaire-

"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.".-Alan Watts-

"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.".-Antonin Artaud-

"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.".-Buddha-

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.".-Denis Waitley-

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"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.".-Frederick Douglass-

"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-

"The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.".-Ludwig Feuerbach-

"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Jesus wept;Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.".-Victor Hugo-

"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.".-Albert Camus-

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.".-Alfred North Whitehead-

"The law is reason, free from passion.".-Aristotle-

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.".-Blaise Pascal-

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.".-Charles Baudelaire-

"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.".-David Hume-

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"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change".-Frank Lloyd Wright-

"The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.".-Henry Louis Mencken-

"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.".-Lester Bangs-

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"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-

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