Best mankind & pleasure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.”

Winning Pleasure Mankind Benefits Scientist Fellows Recognition Endeavor

Author:Irving Langmuir

“The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.”

Giving Seems Pain Evil Pleasure Mankind Majority Errors Being Real

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”

Firsts Self Order Pleasure Virtue Mankind Degrees Destruction Aesthetic Alienation

Author:Jerry Mander

“I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!”

Pleasure Subjects Mankind Cold Kings Halls Thrones Monument Marble Cottages Spades Slabs

Author:Benjamin

“Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.”

Giving Pleasure Mankind Objects Ready Fame Envy Latter Admiration Offspring

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]”

Said Pleasure Mankind Savages Disposition Alluring Truce

Author:Ovid

“Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?”

Age Wish Pleasure Mankind Increase Senses Enjoyment Preservation Spoil

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author

“The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.”

Pleasure Greater Mankind Counterfeit

Book:The Idler

Source: The Idler

“When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.”

“Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.”

Way Want Work Pleasure Mankind Originals Trade Profession Violent Luxury Former Latter Avarice Degenerates

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.”

Should Wells Pleasure Mankind Rewards Eastern Monarchs Blameless

Author:Richard Whately

“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.”

Mind May Pleasure Rich Mankind Industry Capable Claims Privilege Intellect Senses Enjoyment Relief Temporary Exclusive Forgetfulness Luxurious Temporary Relief

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.”

Men Different Pleasure Principles Mankind Particular Diversity Firm Stable Variables Different Times

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.”

Thinking Whole Age My Own Pleasure Mankind Duty Glory Advantage Difficulty Profit Consideration Duration Now Or Never

Book:Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition

Source: Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition

“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

“This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.”

Giving Self Love Is Pleasure Mankind Self Love Instruments Dear Preservation Provision

Book:A Philosophical Dictionary

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary

“He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.”

Littles Suffering Pleasure Saws Mankind Becoming Sake Gray Unworthy Despised Childlike Toiling

Author:Hermann Hesse

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