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“Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel. One scientist may get great satisfaction from another's work and admire it deeply; it may give him great intellectual pleasure; but it gives him no sense of participation in the discovery, it does not carry him away, and his appreciation of it does not depend on his being carried away. If it were otherwise the inspirational origin of scientific discovery would never have been in doubt.”

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.”

World Mean Truth Faces Pleasure Doubt Truth Is Profit Driven Contradiction Yield Profitable

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.”

Giving Imagination Simple Pleasure Beauty Doubt Horror Extraordinary No Doubt Proven Exceptional Ugliness Simple Things Fiery Extraordinary Things Nastiness

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.”

Heart Art Reason Might Pleasure Doubt My Heart Destruction Mere Destroyed Deviation

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.”

Love Hands Loses Pleasure Half Doubt Danger Willing Flower Lovers Difficulty Merit Hunters Perfume

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”

Ifs Men Mind May Light Lying Imagination Pleasure Poor Numbers Opinion Taken Doubt Add Vain Melancholy Diamond Pearls Mixtures Flattering Valuation

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.”

Men Heart May Pleasure Doubt Pride My Heart Deserve Letters Awards Reverence Nobel

Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.”

World Whole Life Is Purpose Pleasure Principles Doubt Whole World Operations No Doubt Purpose Of Life Programmes Efficacy Microcosm

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.”

Would Be Pleasure Principles Doubt Ego Conscious Resistance Liberation No Doubt Unconscious Repressed Conscious And Unconscious

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils.”

Ifs Mean Persons Long Country Evil Answers Pleasure Race Doubt Advice Mankind Depends Taste Decided Satisfaction Various Branches No Doubt Voyages Possessing Undertakings

Book:The Voyage of the Beagle

Source: The Voyage of the Beagle