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Greatest Pleasure Quotes (page 2)

Scott Adams quote: "Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived..."
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. Scott Adams
This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. Anthony Trollope
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams? Gustave Flaubert
... our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good. Madeleine L'Engle
One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubemp? It haunts me in my moments of pleasure. I remember it when I laugh. Oscar Wilde
Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable. Marcel Proust
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is. John Piper
My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be.... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure.... but as my own being. Emily Bronte
We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw that neglected cloak of stillness around you? and concentrate, if only for three or four minutes. Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. Ian Mcewan
Francois Quesnay quote: "To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least..."
To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort. Francois Quesnay
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. Ian Mcewan
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "What does a decent chap talk about with the greatest possible..."
What does a decent chap talk about with the greatest possible pleasure? Answer: about himself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Frederick The Great
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. Ayn Rand
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the... Nikos Kazantzakis

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