“I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.” KnowsSelfPleasureAwarenessTaughtTasteSelf AwarenessHungryContentmentBetter LifeI Am Thankful Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.” ShouldLiteraturePleasureModernTaughtErrorsContemporaryAbsurdMonkeysCurriculumEnglish LiteratureContemporary LiteratureModern English Author:Rebecca West
“If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.” IfsLooksMayNightPleasureMorningPositionTaughtShapesAuthorityDespiteSaturdayMondayTaught UsSaturday NightMonday MorningPurposelessnessHedonist Author:Clive Barker
“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!” ThinkingWorldBookPhilosophyFeelingsPleasurePracticeLonelinessTaughtReturnDemandLonelySimplicityWorthyPoetry IsSentimentsSpunWordsworthShunning Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.” IfsNeedsChildrenWould BePleasureRoomsEffortTaughtPleaseCatCleanRewardsShoesStoresTreatedTiesDecentWickedReliefBullyingCandyRaising ChildrenGroceriesIrresponsibleCursedFractionsGrocery StoresFrictionMeddlingPlease And Thank You Book:Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives Source: Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives
“One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.” TodayFilmPoliticalPleasureCasesStudyGroupsSubjectsMovementTaughtTheoryProjectsFeministLiberationNarrativeCinemaVisualsCrucialAcademicInterventionRealisedUsefulnessPsychoanalyticStudy Group Author:Laura Mulvey