Henry Home, Lord Kames Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Imagination, Expectations, Pleasure

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.62

• Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Pain, Men, Joy

• Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Pain, Pleasure, Fortune

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.32

• Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Selfish, Passion, Pride

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