“Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.” MenOpinionSubjectsTasteBehaviorDressesAmusementOrnaments Author:George Eliot
“To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.” MayJoySubjectsSourceThousandSpringAccidentsAliensInevitableMinistersDependentAfflictionAmusementRecreationInterruptions Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.” IfsMayLeftPrinciplesSubjectsDignitySettlingAmusementAwakenedAnimated Author:Thornton T. Munger
“Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.” PeopleKnowsWantMindWellsArtPleasureResultsSubjectsTasteIncreaseSlaveryChainsArtificialAmusement Book:The Social Contract Source: The Social Contract