"He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible."

-- Aristotle

#Pleasure Quotes

“I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.”
“The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.”

Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.14, Transaction Publishers
“It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.”
“When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.”
“Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.”
“The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.”
“If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory.”
“Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.”

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