“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.” SometimesRealityPainBitsEnjoyPleasureAcceptingPiecesIllusionInvestingComplaintsCollide Book:Reflections on War and Death Source: Reflections on War and Death
“Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.” WellsKindHelpingVoicePleasurePiecesSubjectsAdvantageExcellentLatterPreacherPreachingAccentsCan NotDiscourseEmphasisSermonsRehearsalDeliveryStationary Book:The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography Source: The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography
“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.” WorldWantWritingMindWellsMayArtBookAbleArtistPleasureAttentionStudyPiecesProductsReaderSucceedStructureAdmireDividing Author:Annie Dillard
“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.” MayDoneUseLastsEvilProcessPleasureHellPiecesHabitEternalStonesWoodsThis LifeSatanConstructionCentreConstructsBuilderArchesKeystonesFirewood Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.” RomanceFeltPleasurePiecesChildhoodGeniusDespairDegreesJudgmentPerformancesRegardReceivingExaltedTrifling Author:Edmund Burke
“I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.” ThinkingTryingIdeasPleasurePiecesRelaxLeisureIncapableInabilityLeisure TimeWork Day Author:Fred Armisen
“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.” ChildrenPleasurePiecesWifeNurseHouseholdFurniture Author:Sophia Tolstaya
“Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling Him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give Him a traitor's kiss; every word you have spoken against Him, every hard thought you have had of Him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the Cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory.” WorldGivingHardFacesJoyHeavenChristPleasureLordPiecesThis WorldKissingGloryGainsCrossesCrowdsProfessionSellingThirtySilverSpitTraitorMockComplicityJudasCalvary Author:Charles Spurgeon