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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. 
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The... 
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. 
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not ... 
It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happin... 
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. 
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. 
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. 
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the ... 
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. 
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it... 
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it... 
...the taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For ... 
In order to have constant success and prosperity it is very important to be focused not on the succe... 
Order doesn't come by itself. 
..What our contempt often hurls from us,
The quality of life is more important than life itself 
The quality of life is more important than life itself. 
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. ... 
The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dre... 
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips t... 
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. 
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. 
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel... 
Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be... 
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from... 
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itsel... 
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in ... 
But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They ... 
Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation... 
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is... 
A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the va... 
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the ... 
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffe... 
Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible. 
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never... 
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot... 
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly ret... 
To employ the coercive apparatus of the state in order to maintain manifestly unjust institutions is... 
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can sur... 
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little... 
Control of consciousness determines the quality of life. 
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually r... 
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually r... 
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by... 
Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfa... 
A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because ... 
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that order... 
Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not p... 
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h... 
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But ... 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are se... 
The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are se... 
A computer program can modify itself but it cannot violate its own instructions — it can at best c... 
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate pu... 
A network can be destroyed by noises that attack and transform it, if the codes in place are unable ... 
All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of... 
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara... 
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara... 
Unrest of the spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving... 
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which pre... 
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objec... 
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasur... 
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Cons... 
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. 
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an ... 
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be val... 
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. 
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn 
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but co... 
Goals transform a random walk into a chase. 
Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.