Best society & pleasure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.”

Men Two Body Hours Pleasure Greater Society Exercise Profound Enjoyment Appetite Lectures Amusing Horseback

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...

“When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.”

People World Has Beens Reality Pain Young Imagination Pleasure Society Paint Disappointment Dues Paradise Realism Lively Pain And Pleasure Due Time

Book:Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Source: Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

“Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.”

“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”

“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

Men Country Pleasure Company Society Ought Solitude Towns Seeking Sufficient Sensible This Society

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.”

Thinking Men God Christian Lasts Sports Understanding Religious Pleasure Society Media Lovers Driven Leisure Preacher Last Time Pastor End Of The World Last Day Eschatology

Author:Jerry Falwell

“Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.”

Work Pleasure Society Highest Intellectual Rewards Dissipation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.”

People Men Pleasure Groups Society Source Men And Women Majority Add Profound Satisfaction Psychological Ecstasy Associates Secrecy

Book:Complete Essays: 1930-1935

Source: Complete Essays: 1930-1935

“Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.”

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Author:Karl Kraus

“. . . what societies deem allowable as pleasure is constantly and unpredictably negotiated.”

Pleasure Society

Book:A History of the World in 100 Objects

Source: A History of the World in 100 Objects

“For society to be well ordered, it will have to regard great pleasures as hostile and troublesome in relation to the whole. But not because they conceal the power of the unlimited. On the contrary: because they would compel us to recognize that the power of the unlimited is concealed in money itself.”

Pleasure Society

Book:The Ruin of Kasch

Source: The Ruin of Kasch

“We are living in the ‘Insane Masturbator’ society.”

Sex Imagination Pleasure Society Living Insane Solo Hormones Lone Masturbator

Author:Steven Magee

“Because a child is bound to grow, society is intent upon cultivating the child’s mind to mature into a very specific type of responsible person. Children take great pleasure in small things that have no practical purpose in their dreamy world where they can be as wild as wind. Each year a part of the child dies, as it is burden with adult responsibilities.”

Children Pleasure Society Childhood Expectations Pleasures Of Life Social Pressure

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure”

Life Pleasure Society

Book:Of Human Bondage

Source: Of Human Bondage

“I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.”

Happiness Science Pleasure Teacher Society Duty Improvement Contribution Better

Book:The Pleasures of Life

Source: The Pleasures of Life

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