Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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