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Pleasure
«... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Intelligence,
Pleasure,
Understanding
«The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.»
«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.»
«The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.»
«The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.»
Author: Marcel Achard
(Playwright)
| About:
Careers,
Money,
Pleasure,
Writers
| Keywords:
comparable, comparable to, comparable with
«There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
gained, pleasure, useless
«The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident»
«Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Mathematics,
Pleasure,
Truth
| Keywords:
discovering, seeking