Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
It is the mind that makes the body.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.