“Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.” PeopleHeartMayPleasureTasteEmptyIdlenessEmpty Heads Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.” MindIdeasSoulLosesImaginationNaturalSpacePleasureExistenceSilenceFireMeditationSubjectsProduceTasteSolitudeIntellectualEternityProfoundRaisedDelightPursuitEnthusiasmToneEnjoymentConceptionHeroicContemplatingSublimeRefinedAdoptingDarts Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.” MenMayBookHandsReadingForgetPleasureTreeHe ManDutyPureInfiniteRichesLuxuryFriendlyLastingShadeTormentBosomsGrandeurLivelyCompatible Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.” WorldMindRealJoyPleasureSolitudeCapableAdvantageIndependenceNobleRationalAcquireDestructiveMelancholyContemptIdleDiscontentApprehensionJoy Of LifeDeceitfulDistasteAffording Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.” MindMayPleasureRichMankindIndustryCapableClaimsPrivilegeIntellectSensesEnjoymentReliefTemporaryExclusiveForgetfulnessLuxuriousTemporary Relief Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
