225.Quotes On Pleasure:Present:Reason-Part 5

"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.." -Anthony Trollope-

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"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.".-Baruch Spinoza-

"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are".-C. S. Lewis-

"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.".-Clarence Darrow

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"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.".-Frank Moore Colby-

"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.".-Horace Walpole-

"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.".-Lawana Blackwell-

"To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.".-Mark Twain-

"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.".-Oscar Wilde-

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"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.".-Sir John Vanbrugh-

"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.".-Yoshida Kenko-

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.".-Albert Einstein-

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.".-Barbara de Angelis-

"The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.".-Charles Baudelaire-

"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.".-Doug Horton-

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"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.".-Henri L. Bergson-

"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.".-Kate Millet-

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.".-Norman Cousins-

"Insist on yourself;never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"Reason gains all people by compelling none.".-Aaron Hill-

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.".-Albert Einstein-

"It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.".-Anatole France-

"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much;always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends;never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can;to hearken to what ".-Benjamin Franklin-

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.".-Buddha-

"The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.".-Clark Gable-

"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.".-Francis Bacon-

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"Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.".-Hegel-

"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.".-John Jay Chapman-

"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.".-Louis Aragon-

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"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.".-Noam Chomsky-

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