Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
—Miyamoto Musashi
“It is all well with Christ’s cause because it is in his own hands. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands.”
Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.
—Thomas Aquinas
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
—Charles Darwin
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Every action has its pleasure and its price.
—Socrates
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
—Immanuel Kant
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
—René Descartes
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
—Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
—Aristotle
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
—Sigmund Freud
I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. – C.S. Lewis
People desire to make God a dead God, in order to be able to deal with him according to their pleasure. But the Holy Scripture calls to man: You have gone astray; God exists. He is the true God; he lives, now and forever.
—Herman Bavinck
At the creation the morning stars sang, and all the children of God shouted with joy. At the birth of Christ a multitude of heavenly hosts raised a song of jubilation to God’s good pleasure.
—Herman Bavinck
I was resigned to God’s will, to tarry his time, to do his work, and suffer his pleasure.
—David Brainerd
Oh, it refreshed my soul, to think of former things, of desires to glorify God, of the pleasures of living to him!
—David Brainerd
God is not obliged. He has made no promise but yet ’tis his pleasure often to answer the prayers of those who are full of hypocrisy and all manner of abomination.
—Jonathan Edwards
Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
—John Locke
Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
—John Locke