Samuel Johnson - The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always b...

Samuel Johnson Zitate

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Der Geist ist nie mit den Gegenständen unmittelbar davor zufrieden, sondern löst sich immer vom gegenwärtigen Moment ab und verliert sich in Schemen zukünftiger Glücksgefühle ... Die natürlichen Flüge des menschlichen Geistes sind nicht von Vergnügen zu Vergnügen, sondern von Hoffnung hoffen.

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