Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Samuel Johnson
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
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Aristotle
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.
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Jessica Valenti
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.
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A Dangerous Method
One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.
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Aldous Huxley
More Quotes By Giacomo Casanova
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Lies, truth, love I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.
There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
