Zitat des Tages über Genüsse / Pleasures:
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
