#pleasure

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#along #coldplay #cream #guilty #ice

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#before #believer #day #dependent #even

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#highly #himself #man #pleasure #pride

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cause #idea #oneself #pleasure

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#confess #etc #failed #faults #his

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

#deal #doing #every #every time #feeling

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#just #more #pleasurable #pleasure #pleasures

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. ↗

— James Naismith

#basketball #derive #goals #i #i am

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#beautiful #experience #gives #great #often