“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.” IfsMindIdeasEndsOrderIndividualPleasureParticularElementsDirectRelationStriveSensesReactionsColourSensibilityOrganizeFormalTextureApprehensionSensuous Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence ... penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.” HumansHeartLittlesIdeasMightPleasureInfluenceMy HeartConcernedRelationFierceHuman RelationsNonentity Book:The Rector of Justin: A Novel Source: The Rector of Justin: A Novel
“Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about, to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do, sexual relations. As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality...” PeopleThinkingSometimesMatterReasonWholeFactsOrderSexPleasureObjectsRelationNotionSexualityReason WhyMutualTheoreticalMatter Of FactObjectionsProcreation Author:Alan Keyes
“The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.” DifferentFeelingsSpiritualPleasureRelationTranslateClosenessGreatest PleasuresMerging Author:Ventseslav Konstantinov
“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.” WayPainPleasureActingQualityMoralVirtueOppositesRelationAssumingVicesBest WayPain And PleasureMoral VirtuesNicomachean Ethics Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.” KnowsBelieveBookDifferentReadingLiteratureRealizingPleasureNovelMysterySummerRelationMurderWinterGuiltyMagazinesGraphicSnobSnobberyGraphic NovelsBookshopsGuilty PleasureMurder Mysteries Author:Colum McCann
“The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.” IfsMenLongPlayLastsFormOrderWalksPleasureRolesColorConceptsRelationStructureConvincedMeaningfulLandscapeMeaninglessSubjectiveArbitraryTotalityPedestriansLandscaping Author:Max Horkheimer