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 G.I. Gurdjieff
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study...
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.
