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“I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.”

Source: 1816-1828

“The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.”

“By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.”

Ifs Life Humans Death Evil Pleasure Secret Meditation Effects Reflection Intense Miserable Human Life Intimate Life Death Poisoning Rendering Miserable Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?”

Men Want Humans Today Hate Black Natural Pleasure Brother Greed Lust My Brother Cheating Expenses Reach Out Hate You Perversion Cheating Yourself

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.”

Humans Understanding Growth Human Beings Pleasure Seeing Childhood Perspective Profound Oneself Satisfaction Caring Parenthood New Perspective

Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood

Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood

“Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.”

Humans Heart Body Pleasure Comfort Human Heart Worldly Worldly Pleasures

Author:Umar

“We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?”

Humans Helping Pleasure Masters Affection Inclination Frailty Human Frailties Anon

Author:George Etherege

“Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.”

Humans Wells Use Wisdom Pleasure Numbers Talent Exercise Ill Dues Sweetness Alleviate Human Wisdom

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.”

“Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations of the Reality are wonderment, the cancelling of the debt which is owed, and the blinding of vision. The Love of the human being for God is a reverence which penetrates the very depths of his being, and which is not permitted to be given except to Allah alone. The Love of Allah for the human being is that He Himself gives proof of Himself, not revealing Himself to anything that is not He.”

Giving Humans Reality Given Human Beings Love Is Pleasure Vision Depth Possession Debt Proof Stations Reverence Revealing Penetrate

Author:Mansur Al-Hallaj

“Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.”

People Humans Looks Made Pleasure Cat Hated Manifestation Touching Discomfort Malicious

Author:Barbara Mertz

“It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering-grasping and avoidance.”

Humans Important Hands Pain Desire Suffering Pleasure Human Experience Avoidance Grasping Pain And Pleasure

Author:Dipa Ma

“It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.”

Mind Humans May Reading Pleasure Effort Novel Worst Effects Habit Mere Curiosity Excitement Human Mind Receiving Sensibility Habitual Exertion

Book:The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory, since pain, when pain has passed, is nothing. Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity, conducting us to the Incomprehensible. In its progress there is a ripening power, and it ripens us the more, and the more powerfully, when we duly estimate it. Listen to its voice, do not waste it, but regard it as the highest finite good, in which all finite things are resolved.”

Life Humans Important Pain Voice Pleasure Progress Waste Highest Eternity Regard Important Things Track Human Life Wheels Finite Departure Conducting Ripening

Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.”

Source: Evans's Pedestrious Tour

“There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.”

Ifs Men Want Firsts Humans Kind Spiritual Three Christ Natural Pleasure Human Nature Please Normal Thirds Harm Asceticism

Author:Tito Colliander

“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.”

Humans Pleasure Essentials Garden Gardening Garden Love Inspirational Gardening Horticulture

Author:Francis Bacon

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”

“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.”

“The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.”

Humans May Whole Stories Today Pleasure Progress Tomorrow Comfort Tales Denial Ease Repose

Author:James Carroll

“The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.”

Feels Firsts Humans Littles Pleasure Animal Ought Hatred Aim Response Pleasant Dislike Disgusting Hateful Pupils Human Animal Aim Of Education Like And Dislike

Author:Aristotle

“Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.”

“Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection”

Humans States Pain Social Pleasure Acceptance Rejection Motivated Social Acceptance

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of them inept at times, prone to reach for some other fulfillment, some other pleasure.”

Humans Whole Human Beings Pleasure Crazy Whole Life Fulfillment

Book:Marriage: A Duet

Source: Marriage: A Duet

“Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?”

Ifs Want Humans Running Dies Human Beings Pleasure Dying Honor Always Running

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.”

Way Humans Problem Pain Enjoy Human Beings Pleasure Source Capacity Enjoyment Confused Attachment Limitless Dissatisfaction Grasping Source Of Happiness

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.”

Source: The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism