“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.” FirstsMayReasonHappensMovingLiteratureSpeakUnderstandingPleasureTeachHigherFunctionMereAffectionSailOarRudders Book:Leaders in literature Source: Leaders in literature
“Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.” TodayHatePleasureExistenceTeachRightsSourceEqualI HateClaimsInstinctWorkersSatisfactionRevengeSocialistEqual RightsApostlesEnvious Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.” IfsMenBookWisdomAbleTogetherLeftPleasureBehindsTeachVirtueWiseWrittenDogProveBirdPicksMy FriendsHorseProfitTreasureIntroducingGood FriendLeft BehindAnother ManGood Horse Author:Socrates
“Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.” ShouldLightEyePainEvilPleasureTeachBreakSourceDawnUnexpectedGood And EvilBowsGloomResignationPain And PleasureConfiding Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.” ThinkingNeedsMeanEndsHardAgeBeautifulYoungPleasureBoysTeachPerformancesConnectedIntimacyAggressiveYoung AgeReciprocityTouch Me Author:Eve Ensler
“If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.” IfsWorldWayShouldSpiritOrderEnjoyWaterMy OwnPleasureTeachWineGlassesHumbleChalice Book:Either/or Source: Either/or
“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.” WayArtEnoughFeelingsRealityJoyDesireArtistUnderstandingPleasureTeachAudienceDemandDiscoveryTragedyTheaterDelightInsightLiberationTriumphAlienationSchooledInformativePrometheusChanging Reality Author:Bertolt Brecht
“I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.” ThinkingGivingImportantPleasureActingTeachGood ThingsProfession Author:Vivien Leigh
“In the sex education process in schools, the one thing that they teach about is how to get pregnant and how to not get pregnant. But they don't really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women.” SchoolSexProcessPleasureTeachOne ThingPregnantSex Education Author:Ashton Kutcher