“Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.” WorldBeautifulPleasureEndureCalmIntellectSensualitySensualBordersClimbingBubblesSublimeUnseenSoapSparklingSensual PleasureSoap Bubbles Author:John H Aughey
“The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.” MayMeanPleasureCircumstancesFunctionIntellectReactionsSecureWelfareSymptomsModifying Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies
“If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.” IfsMindWellsBodyLyingPleasureStudyIntellectSicknessWornSheerSoarAmusementCouchesSlumberIndolenceVacancy Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper
“[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.” PeopleNeedsGivingShouldArtSelfPassionIndividualPleasureEmotionalExerciseDemandInfiniteIntellectIntenseVarietyYieldDistractionExpectingIdealistPleasures Of LifeLove Passion Book:The Essential Willa Cather Collection Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection
“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